| { | |
| "original_study": { | |
| "claim": { | |
| "hypothesis": "Post-secular individuals are less likely than modern individuals to believe humans evolved from earlier species.", | |
| "hypothesis_location": "The descriptive comparison appears in the Results section (Table 2) where evolution beliefs are summarized for each latent perspective group.", | |
| "statement": "The study reports that only 3% of post-secular individuals agree that humans evolved from earlier species, indicating substantially lower acceptance of human evolution among post-secular respondents.", | |
| "statement_location": "Results section, Table 2.", | |
| "study_type": "Observational" | |
| }, | |
| "data": { | |
| "source": "General Social Survey (GSS).", | |
| "wave_or_subset": "2006, 2008, and 2010 waves", | |
| "sample_size": "2,901 cases (1,563 from 2006; 988 from 2008; and 350 from 2010).", | |
| "unit_of_analysis": "Individual adult survey respondent.", | |
| "access_details": "not stated", | |
| "notes": "Belief in human evolution is measured by agreement with the statement that humans evolved from earlier species. Respondents are classified into three latent perspectives—traditional, modern, and post-secular—based on latent class analysis using religion and science belief indicators." | |
| }, | |
| "method": { | |
| "description": "The authors used latent class analysis to identify three worldview groups—traditional, modern, and post-secular—and then descriptively compared the percentage in each group agreeing that humans evolved from earlier species.", | |
| "steps": [ | |
| "Identify indicators of scientific and religious beliefs in the GSS dataset.", | |
| "Estimate a latent class model to classify respondents into traditional, modern, and post-secular perspectives.", | |
| "Extract predicted class membership for respondents.", | |
| "Calculate descriptive percentages of agreement with the statement that humans evolved from earlier species for each latent class.", | |
| "Compare evolution-belief percentages between post-secular and modern perspectives." | |
| ], | |
| "models": "Latent class analysis used for group classification; the evolution comparison itself is descriptive and not based on regression modeling.", | |
| "outcome_variable": "Agreement that humans evolved from earlier species (percentage agreeing).", | |
| "independent_variables": "Latent perspective membership (post-secular vs. modern).", | |
| "control_variables": "not stated (no regression model is used for this descriptive comparison).", | |
| "tools_software": "not stated" | |
| }, | |
| "results": { | |
| "summary": "Post-secular individuals show substantially lower acceptance of human evolution than modern individuals, with only 3% agreeing that humans evolved from earlier species.", | |
| "numerical_results": [ | |
| { | |
| "outcome_name": "Agreement that humans evolved from earlier species", | |
| "value": 3, | |
| "unit": "percentage of respondents agreeing.", | |
| "effect_size": "difference in proportions", | |
| "confidence_interval": { | |
| "lower": "not stated", | |
| "upper": "not stated", | |
| "level": "not stated" | |
| }, | |
| "p_value": "not stated.", | |
| "statistical_significance": 1, | |
| "direction": "negative" | |
| } | |
| ] | |
| }, | |
| "metadata": { | |
| "original_paper_id": "10.1177/0003122414558919", | |
| "original_paper_title": "Traditional, Modern, and Post-Secular Perspectives on Science and Religion in the United States.", | |
| "original_paper_code": "not stated", | |
| "original_paper_data": "not stated" | |
| } | |
| } | |
| } |