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Table 4 Scores for attitudes of Chitwan National Park buffer zone people to snakes and their conservation

From: Public perceptions of snakes and snakebite management: implications for conservation and human health in southern Nepal

Demographics

a. Score for positive attitudes (n = 15, see Table 6.a) (null hypothesis (H0): population median scores (M) = hypothesized median scores (M0 = 8 of 15); alternative hypothesis (Ha): M > M0)

b. Scores for negative attitudes (n = 14, see Table 6.b) (null hypothesis (H0): population median scores (M) = hypothesized median scores (M0 = 2 of 14), alternative hypothesis (Ha): M > M0)

c. Scores for ambivalent attitudes (n = 9, see Table 6.c) (null hypothesis (H0): population median scores (M) = hypothesized median scores (M0 = 1 of 9); alternative hypothesis (Ha): M > M0)

Median, range

W (pos)

p-value

Median, range

W (neg)

p-value

Median, range

W (amb)

p-value

All respondents (150)

9,4–14

67885.5

<0.001

2,0–7

5058

<0.001

2,0–7

4618

<0.001

Age (years)

15–24 (42)

10,4–14

639.5

<0.001

2,0–6

332.5

0.044

2,0–5

337

0.001

25–34 (22)

9,4–14

115

0.102

2,0–6

125

0.226

1,0–4

60

0.048

35–44 (40)

9,5–13

478.5

0.001

2.5,0–7

336

0.037

2,0–7

357

0.004

45–54 (21)

10,5–13

156

0.007

2,0–7

80

0.442

1,0–6

92.5

0.030

55–64 (17)

9,6–13

107.5

0.021

3,1–6

104

0.006

2,1–5

120

<0.001

65+above (8)

6,5–12

7

0.901

3,1–7

25.5

0.029

1,0–5

12

0.412

Gender

Male (102)

9,4–14

3317.5

<0.001

2,0–7

2130

0.055

2,0–7

2475.5

<0.001

Female (48)

9,4–13

620

0.017

3,1–7

604

<0.001

1,0–5

335

0.012

Occupation

Farmer (50)

8,4–13

538.5

0.214

3,1–7

736

<0.001

1.5,0–6

490

0.001

Teacher (45)

9,6–13

718.5

<0.001

2,0–6

401.5

0.321

2,0–7

451

<0.001

Student (34)

10,4–14

414.5

0.001

2,0–6

185

0.269

1.5,0–5

197

0.002

Other a (21)

10,6–14

158

0.001

2,0–6

91

0.411

2,0–4

129

0.025

Educational status

Illiterate (27)

8,5–13

143.5

0.439

3,1–7

211

0.003

1,0–5

115.5

0.026

Literate (120)

9,4–14

4671

<0.001

2,0–7

3055.5

0.006

2,0–7

3212

<0.001

≤ Class 10 (31)

8,4–14

195

0.193

3,0–7

329

<0.001

2,0–6

275

0.001

Class 11–12 (31)

11,5–14

465.5

<0.001

1,0–6

136

0.918

2,0–4

190

0.012

Master’s D (22)

9,6–13

238.5

0.006

2.5,0–6

153

0.186

2,0–7

170

0.001

Bachelor’s D (26)

9.5,4–13

117

0.028

2,1–6

67

0.067

2,0–5

95

0.003

Lit. inf. b (10)

11,5–13

49

0.015

1.5,0–6

17

0.584

0.5,0–3

18.5

0.5

  1. Symbols and abbreviations: ahotel owner (3), miller (3), fisherman (2), boat-man (1), mason (1), labourer (1), housewife (7), nature guide (3); brespondents able to read and write by informal education but never attained school, < less than, > greater than, n sample size i.e. total number of attitude test questions, D degree, W value for one-tailed one-sample Wilcoxon signed rank test, pos positive, neg negative, amb ambivalent; parentheses in column demographics show number of respondents involved in statistical analysis
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