Why are there so few ethnic minorities in ecology and evolutionary biology? Challenges to inclusion and the role of sense of belonging

Table 6 Predictors of interest in evolutionary biology graduate school

	r	β	t	p
Step 1: R² = 0.19, F(5, 1724) = 81.19, p < 0.001
African American versus White	0.10**	0.10**	4.15	0.001
Latino/a versus White	0.06*	0.08*	3.27	0.001
Asian versus White	− 0.07*	− 0.03**	− 1.36	0.175
Biology Major	0.14**	0.06*	2.58	0.010
Evolutionary Biology Courses	0.41**	0.40**	18.11	0.001
Step 2: ΔR² = 0.27 F(9, 1715) = 97.31, p < 0.001
African American versus White	0.10**	0.10*	4.41	0.001
Latino/a versus White	0.06*	0.10*	4.74	0.001
Asian versus White	− 0.07*	0.05*	2.16	0.031
Biology Major	0.14**	0.06*	2.94	0.003
Evolutionary Biology Courses	0.41**	0.21**	10.20	0.001
Knowledge of Evolution	0.14**	0.001	0.07	0.947
Exposure to Ecology	0.15**	0.003	0.16	0.876
Role Models	0.35**	0.03	1.05	0.296
Same-race Role Models	0.31**	0.10**	3.55	0.001
Outdoor Comfort	0.32**	0.15**	7.36	0.001
Religiosity	0.11**	− 0.02	− 1.02	0.310
Moral Objections to Evolution	0.32**	0.41**	19.19	0.001
Communal Goals	0.21**	0.03	1.33	0.184
Sense of Belonging in EB	0.38**	0.37**	16.69	0.001

Table provides information on the Pearson r (zero order) correlation between each predictor variable and interest in evolutionary biology graduate school, standardized regression coefficients, and the test of significance for each regression coefficient. *p < 0.05, **p < 0.001