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Table 3 Public risk comparisons by familiarity

From: Perceptions of risk from nanotechnologies and trust in stakeholders: a cross sectional study of public, academic, government and business attitudes

   

No familiarity

Some familiarity

Moderate familiarity

Application

n^

Risk

%

95% LCI

95% UCI

%

95% LCI

95% UCI

%

95% LCI

95% UCI

Health

1177

Agree

80.7

75.3

86.0

63.6

57.6

69.5

54.0

47.9

60.2

Food

1242

Agree

92.1

88.7

95.6

83.9

79.6

88.3

78.8

73.8

83.7

Cosmetics/sunscreen

1234

Agree

84.3

79.8

88.8

68.6

62.9

74.3

65.1

59.3

70.9

Medicines

1211

Agree

85.8

81.5

90.0

67.1

61.5

72.8

60.9

54.9

66.8

Pesticides

1216

Agree

75.0

69.1

80.8

59.5

53.6

65.4

58.2

52.1

64.3

Tennis racquets/computers

1224

Agree

55.6

49.1

62.1

36.1

30.5

41.6

28.8

23.2

34.5

  1. Note - 95% CI used to be consistent with Table 1 as government and business had a small sample size.
  2. ^n = number of respondents (don’t know/refused removed).