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Question: How much do you agree or disagree with each of these statements? - Overall, modern science does more harm than good
Choices: "Strongly agree" "Agree" "Neither agree nor disagree" "Disagree" "Strongly disagree"
Data: % of "Strongly agree" "Agree"
Period:
Area:
20 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Bulgaria46.0%
2 Philippines 40.7%
3 Ireland38.3%
4 Italy32.3%
5 Spain30.1%
6 Slovenia28.7%
7 Germany26.9%
8 Czech Republic26.7%
9 United Kingdom26.4%
10 Hungary26.3%
11 Japan25.0%
12 Australia21.6%
13 Russian Federation20.7%
14 Israel20.1%
15 Poland19.4%
16 Canada18.9%
17 New Zealand18.6%
18 United States17.1%
19 Netherlands14.0%
20 Norway11.2%

Note
Can't choose/ No answer are excluded. Germany: unweighted sum of West and East Germany. United Kingdom: excluding Northern Ireland.

No data for 218 countries.
Source
ISSP 1993

 Correlations with major national performance indices
Life satisfaction (10 steps)
No. of data20
Regression equation
Y = -3.907146 X +7.644
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.552
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.305
GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data20
Regression equation
Y = -111842.075807 X +71154.608
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.391
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.153
Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data20
Regression equation
Y = -16.103564 X +83.698
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.358
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.128
Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data20
Regression equation
Y = 0.473113 X +1.505
Correlation coefficient (r)0.107
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.011
Suicide - all ages (per 100,000 population)
No. of data20
Regression equation
Y = -20.274034 X +16.995
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.352
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.124