Table 2 Multiple regression analyses with gender, age, education, science knowledge, environmental identity, New Ecological Paradigm, political orientation and conspiracy mentality predicting agreement with contrarian claims (Study 1)

From: Public agreement with misinformation about wind farms

 

β

B (SE)

95% CI

t

p

United States (N = 989)

Gender (−1 male, +1 female)

0.11

0.09 (0.03)

0.04, 0.14

3.60

3.30e-4

Age

−0.12

−0.06 (0.02)

−0.09, −0.03

−3.92

9.55e-5

Education

0.00

0.00 (0.04)

−0.08, 0.07

−0.10

0.925

Science knowledge

−0.08

−0.04 (0.02)

−0.07, −0.01

−2.65

0.008

Environmental identity

0.02

0.02 (0.03)

−0.03, 0.07

0.76

0.445

New Ecological Paradigm

−0.22

−0.35 (0.05)

−0.44, −0.25

−7.34

4.42e-13

Political orientation

0.09

0.08 (0.03)

0.03, 0.14

2.83

0.005

Conspiracy mentality

0.35

0.41 (0.03)

0.35, 0.48

12.10

1.70e-31

United Kingdom (N = 996)

Gender (−1 male, +1 female)

0.15

0.12 (0.02)

0.08, 0.17

5.46

6.17e-8

Age

−0.09

−0.05 (0.02)

−0.08, −0.02

−3.15

0.002

Education

0.11

0.11 (0.03)

0.05, 0.17

3.57

3.72e-4

Science knowledge

−0.12

−0.06 (0.01)

−0.09, −0.03

−4.14

3.79e-5

Environmental identity

0.02

0.02 (0.03)

−0.04, 0.07

0.63

0.529

New Ecological Paradigm

−0.27

−0.39 (0.04)

−0.48, −0.31

−9.01

6.41e-19

Political orientation

−0.01

−0.01 (0.03)

−0.08, 0.05

−0.40

0.692

Conspiracy mentality

0.33

0.35 (0.03)

0.29, 0.41

11.92

1.08e-30

Australia (N = 998)

Gender (−1 male, +1 female)

0.03

0.02 (0.02)

−0.02, 0.07

1.06

0.291

Age

0.00

0.00 (0.02)

−0.03, 0.03

0.12

0.902

Education

−0.01

−0.01 (0.03)

−0.07, 0.05

−0.44

0.662

Science knowledge

−0.10

−0.05 (0.01)

−0.07, −0.02

−3.19

0.001

Environmental identity

0.04

0.04 (0.03)

−0.02, 0.09

1.23

0.219

New Ecological Paradigm

−0.18

−0.25 (0.04)

−0.33, −0.16

−5.67

1.93e-8

Political orientation

0.08

0.09 (0.04)

0.02, 0.16

2.54

0.011

Conspiracy mentality

0.40

0.45 (0.03)

0.39, 0.52

13.73

2.13e-39

  1. Test were two-sided and no adjustments for multiple comparisons were made (α = 0.05).
  2. β standardised regression coefficient, B unstandardised regression coefficient, SE standard error, CI confidence interval, t test statistic from the multiple regression analysis.
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