Team:Tufts/survey

Part I: General Knowledge

Have you heard of bacteriophages?
12% of the base (sample without any barriers) have heard of bacteriophages.
There was no significant difference in gender.
19% of 18-34 year-old people have heard of them.
18% of people with an annual income greater than $50,000 have heard of them.
21% of people with education greater than a bachelors degree have heard of them.
Prior to this survey, most people had not heard of bacteriophages or synthetic biology, but most had heard of GMOs and antibiotic resistance.

Part II: Food

On the whole most people are pretty neutral toward genetically modified organisms (GMOs).
Women are generally more concerned than men are about GMOs.
The largest deterrent from purchasing GMOs are rumors about their safety.
The largest driver for purchasing GMOs is price of non-GMO food.
68% of the population believes we should conduct further research before GMOs are used to feed the growing population.
Wealthy, young, males are most interestingly the groups that are most likely to want GMO products available. Note: wealthy people were more likely to not buy GMOs for themselves. They are willing to give them to others, but not eat them at home.

Medicinal GMOs

Wealth and education are strong indicators of likelihood of using GMO products.
64% of the population is concerned by antibiotic resistance.
56% believe the government should be doing more to combat it.
49% would be willing to use bacteriophages to combat a life-threatening disease.
86% of women would not be willing to spend more money on GMO free products.
92% of men would not be willing to spend more money on GMO free products.