People with more extreme attitudes towards science have self-confidence in their understanding of science, even if this is not justified

• Cristina Fonseca,

  Roles Data curation, Methodology, Project administration

  Affiliation The Genetics Society, London, United Kingdom

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• Jonathan Pettitt,

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation School of Medicine, Medical Sciences and Nutrition, University of Aberdeen, Institute of Medical Sciences, Aberdeen, United Kingdom

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• Alison Woollard,

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Biochemistry Department, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom

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• Adam Rutherford,

  Roles Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Genetics, Evolution and Environment, University College London, London, United Kingdom

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• Wendy Bickmore,

  Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation MRC Human Genetics Unit, Institute of Genetics and Cancer, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, United Kingdom

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• Anne Ferguson-Smith,

  Roles Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Genetics, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom

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• Laurence D. Hurst

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Software, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: l.d.hurst@bath.ac.uk

  Affiliations The Milner Centre for Evolution, Department and Biology and Biochemistry, University of Bath, Bath, United Kingdom, Wissenshaftskolleg zu Berlin, Berlin, Germany

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1002-1054

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