Team:York/Surveys

Surveys

Through our surveys, we aimed to determine whether age, gender, nationality, scientific literacy and religious and political views significantly influence public opinion on the topic of GMOs, GMO based projects and portrayal of GMO in the media.

91% of respondents considered environmental protection important or extremely important. For this question, significant differences between groups were only observed between genders, with 78% of females saying that environmental protection is extremely important, compared to only 40% of males (figure 1.).

We asked our responders whether they would support or discourage environmental remediation projects and initiatives. Significant differences were observed between age groups, genders and Western and Eastern Europeans.

95% of responders under the age of 24 said that they would support or strongly support environmental remediation projects, compared to only 73% of those over 24 (figure 2.).

At 92%, females are also more likely than males to support or strongly support environmental protection initiatives, who would only do so 80% of the time (figure 3.).

As opposed to 98% of Western European responders, only 75% of those from Eastern Europe would support projects aiming to protect the environment (figure 4.)

Although 85% of our responders said that they would support, or strongly support environmental remediation projects and initiatives, the number dropped to 60% when responders were told that these projects would use genetically modified organisms. Compared to the previous question, where there were significant differences between groups based on age, gender and nationality, in this case the only significant differences are based on religious affiliation and scientific literacy (figure 5)