3.2 Levels of concern and expertise of respondents to COVID-19 and Climate change
The results of our analysis show that the non-expert group considered themselves to have an equal level of expertise in both topics, with a mean (M) value of 3.6 for both topics and standard deviation (SD) of 0.87 and 0.92 for climate change and COVID-19, respectively (Table 3). The experts, on the other hand, indicated remarkably more often to be experts with regards to climate change (M= 4.1, SD= 0.944) than with COVID-19 (M= 2.9, SD= 0.957).
Table 3. Level of expertise and concern for expert and non-expert respondents to the first survey of the current research.