FIGURE 4-3. The range of “think scores,” by age, when respondents were asked to identify the smallest thing they could think of.

FIGURE 4-3The range of “think scores,” by age, when respondents were asked to identify the smallest thing they could think of.

A higher score indicates more “sub-atomic,” or nanoscopic, thinking. See text for more details.

SOURCE: Reprinted from Springer, Journal of Nanoparticle Research, Volume 10, Issue 7, 2008, pp. 1141–1148, Numbers, scale and symbols: the public understanding of nanotechnology, CA Batt, AM Waldron, N Broadwater, adapted from Figure 1, Copyright © (2008), with kind permission from Springer Science and Business Media.

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