The article attributes a lot of the results to the perception of varying degrees of precision in these various fields, but a lot of the results are also explain

The article attributes a lot of the results to the perception of varying degrees of precision in these various fields, but a lot of the results are also explainable via US politics. Words like "climate change", and by extension "climatology", are so politically charged that tribalism usually kicks in when many people hear these terms. A similar thing happens with evolution, however there is also a religious dimension there alongside the political dimension.