The Effect of Question Framing and Response Options on the Relationship between Racial Attitudes and Beliefs about Genes as Causes of Behavior

Singer, Eleanor; Couper, Mick P.; Raghunathan, Trivellore E.; Antonucci, Toni C.; Burmeister, Margit; Hoewyk, John Van

doi:10.1093/poq/nfq009

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“…it did not emerge with respect to individual differences. This pattern echoes previous findings that people perceive variation in characteristics within a population differently from variation in those characteristics between social groups (condit, Parrott, and harris 2002;singer et al 2010). Public thinking about differences in race, class, and sexual orientation is likely more politicized than public thinking about individual differences.…”

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Does Biology Justify Ideology? The Politics of Genetic Attribution

Suhay

Jayaratne

2012

Public Opinion Quarterly

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Conventional wisdom suggests that political conservatives are more likely than liberals to endorse genetic explanations for many human characteristics and behaviors. Whether and to what extent this is true has received surprisingly limited systematic attention. We examine evidence from a large U.S. public opinion survey that measured the extent to which respondents believed genetic explanations account for a variety of differences among individuals as well as groups in society. We find that conservatives were indeed more likely than liberals to endorse genetic explanations for perceived race and class differences in characteristics often associated with socioeconomic inequality (intelligence, math skills, drive, and violence). Different ideological divisions emerged, however, with respect to respondents' explanations for sexual orientation. Here, liberals were more likely than conservatives to say that sexual orientation is due to genes and less likely to say that it is due to choice or the environment. These patterns suggest that conservative and liberal ideologues will tend to endorse genetic explanations where their policy positions are bolstered by "naturalizing" human differences. That said, debates over genetic influence may be more politicized with respect to race, class, and sexual orientation than population differences generally: We find that left/right political ideology was significantly associated with genetic (or other) attributions for individual differences in intelligence, math skills, drive, or violence. We conclude that conceptions of the proper role of government are closely intertwined with assumptions about the causes of human difference, but that this relationship is a complex one.

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Does Biology Justify Ideology? The Politics of Genetic Attribution

Suhay

Jayaratne

2012

Public Opinion Quarterly

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“…Belli, Traugott, Young, & McGonagle, 1999;Prohaska, Brown, & Belli, 1998;Schuldt, Konrath, & Schwarz, 2011;Singer et al, 2010;Tourangeau et al, 2000). We aim to investigate whether consent rates vary by the type of survey question respondents are administered.…”

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Propensity to consent to data linkage: experimental evidence on the role of three survey design features in a UK longitudinal panel

Sala

Knies

Burton

2014

International Journal of Social Research Methodology

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When performing data linkage, survey respondents need to provide their informed consent. Since not all respondents agree to this request, the linked data-set will have fewer observations than the survey data-set alone and bias may be introduced. By focusing on the role that survey design features play in gaining respondents' consent, this paper provides an innovative contribution to the studies in this field. Analysing experimental data collected in a nationally representative household panel survey of the British population, we find that interview features such as question format (dependent/independent questions) and placement of the consent question within the questionnaire have an impact on consent rates.

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“…The sample for this survey therefore could have included anyone living in a hurricane‐threatened area, provided that person was in the SSI database. SSI's survey sampling skills have been utilized throughout the social sciences to collect public opinion and marketing research, and to test questions related to experiments and survey design (e.g., Singer et al., ; Singer and Couper, , ; Dale and Strauss, ; Kennedy, ; Brick et al., , Brick et al., ).…”

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The Intersectionality of Disasters’ Effects on Trust in Public Officials

Reinhardt

2019

Social Science Quarterly

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Objective. Groups defined by race and ideology are well-known predictors of interpersonal and political trust, but gender-based effects are undecided. I investigate whether disaster experience conditions a difference in political trust between women and men. Methods. Examining the hurricane data set of U.S. public opinion, I analyze intersectionality's influence on disaster-based political trust with a three-way interaction between race, class, and gender. Results. Among disaster survivors, black women trust less than all other race-gender groups, and white men trust the most. The difference between black and white women survivors' political trust is attenuated by education. Education exacerbates race-based political trust among observers. Among observers, there is not a gender-based distinction. Conclusion. Disasters create new identities based on shared experience, and offer a moment in time that illustrates how trust varies along gender-race-classdisaster dimensions. Knowing how trust differs according to intersectionality allows managers to manage critical events better.

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The Effect of Question Framing and Response Options on the Relationship between Racial Attitudes and Beliefs about Genes as Causes of Behavior

Cited by 18 publications

References 27 publications

Does Biology Justify Ideology? The Politics of Genetic Attribution

Does Biology Justify Ideology? The Politics of Genetic Attribution

Propensity to consent to data linkage: experimental evidence on the role of three survey design features in a UK longitudinal panel

The Intersectionality of Disasters’ Effects on Trust in Public Officials

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