"I know a lot about medicinal plants. I read, I watch, and I search": towards hybrid knowledge systems in the modern era.

J Ethnobiol Ethnomed · 2026 · PMC12914922 · PMID 41699677

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did not reach statistical significancep = 0.060so close (0.05 < p ≤ 0.1)

Although the correlation between the number of spoken languages and the degree of knowledge hybridisation was weak (Spearman’s ρ = 0.23), it did not reach statistical significance ( p = 0.060).

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near-significantno p-value reported

Hybridisation was negatively associated with age but positively correlated with the number of listed plants and their reported uses, while multilingualism showed a near-significant positive trend.

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