Table 5 Summary participants’ voluntariness (n = 90) of drinking tap water in Nogales, Arizona relative to several other activities from a Likert scale from 1 (low willing) to 5 (willing)
From: Risk perceptions of drinking bottled vs. tap water in a low-income community on the US-Mexico Border
Activity | Mean | SD | Mean difference | F statistic | P-value |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Drinking-water activities | |||||
Drinking tap water in Nogales, AZ, USA | 1.7 | 1.2 | Ref | Ref | |
Drinking tap water in Guadalajara, Jalisco, México | 1.9 | 1.3 | -0.2 | 0.5 | 0.982 |
Drinking tap water in Nogales, Sonora, México | 1.9 | 1.4 | -0.2 | 0.5 | 0.972 |
Drinking tap water in San Francisco, CA, USA | 2.5 | 1.4 | -0.8 | 1.3 | 0.244 |
Drinking tap water in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada | 2.3 | 1.3 | -0.6 | 0.7 | 0.823 |
Drinking water from a well | 2.1 | 1.4 | -0.4 | 0.6 | 0.994 |
Other activities | |||||
Drinking and driving | 1.1 | 0.5 | -0.6 | 0.7 | 0.842 |
Driving a car | 4.5 | 1.2 | -2.8 | 5.3 | < 0.001* |
Firing a gun | 2.8 | 1.6 | -1.1 | 5.1 | 0.002* |
Listening to loud music | 2.7 | 1.5 | -1.1 | 4.2 | 0.010* |
Playing American football | 2.3 | 1.4 | -0.6 | 0.6 | 0.922 |
Riding in a car without a seatbelt | 1.4 | 0.9 | -0.3 | 0.5 | 0.971 |
Smoking | 1.4 | 1.0 | -0.3 | 0.5 | 0.983 |
Using Raid™ (insecticide) | 2.4 | 1.3 | -0.8 | 1.2 | 0.312 |