Table 2: The ability of understand risk based on level of education and method of presentation.

Type of question No high school degree High school grad Some college College grad Post grad Averaged total percent correct P-value*
Percentage 49.28% 56.04% 51.43% 70.48% 74.36% 60.32% 1.00%
Fraction 62.32% 59.90% 64.44% 72.39% 69.23% 65.65% 25.00%
Mixed 42.39% 45.65% 49.44% 61.43% 65.38% 52.86% 1.00%

Valves are percent correct; *χ2 test.