{"id":2611,"date":"2009-09-01T17:30:41","date_gmt":"2009-09-02T01:30:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/secularright.org\/wordpress\/?p=2611"},"modified":"2009-09-01T18:14:01","modified_gmt":"2009-09-02T02:14:01","slug":"role-of-genes-in-personality","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/role-of-genes-in-personality\/","title":{"rendered":"Role of genes in personality"},"content":{"rendered":"

Inductivist has a post up<\/a> on the public perception of the role genes play in personality via the “GENEEXPS” variable. Though he saw a trend for Republicans to lean slightly toward more of a role for genes, I was struck by the minimal difference. I decided to look in more detail at this variable in the GSS<\/a>, and again, was struck by the relative uniformity in attitude. An exception was with sex: women in this sample most definitely seem to believe that genes have more of a role in personality than men do.<\/strong> Also, the old are more gene-friendly than the young.<\/p>\n

I put the 95th confidence intervals below because of the small sample sizes in some classes. The question was asked in 2004. The N was somewhat above 2200.
\n<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
Genes Play Major Role in Determining Personality<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nLow<\/td>\n<\/td>\nHigh<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
White<\/td>\n22.5<\/td>\n24.6<\/strong><\/td>\n26.8<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Black<\/td>\n23.2<\/td>\n28.3<\/strong><\/td>\n33.4<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
High School<\/td>\n22.6<\/td>\n25.6<\/strong><\/td>\n29.1<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Bachelor<\/td>\n18.7<\/td>\n22.4<\/strong><\/td>\n26.2<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Graduate<\/td>\n18.5<\/td>\n25.2<\/strong><\/td>\n31.8<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Bible Word of God<\/td>\n21.5<\/td>\n27.9<\/strong><\/td>\n34.3<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Bible Inspired Word<\/td>\n21.7<\/td>\n26.6<\/strong><\/td>\n31.5<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Bible Book of Fables<\/td>\n15<\/td>\n20.8<\/strong><\/td>\n26.6<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Protestant<\/td>\n23.7<\/td>\n26.6<\/strong><\/td>\n29.6<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Catholic<\/td>\n20.5<\/td>\n25.2<\/strong><\/td>\n29.9<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
No Religion<\/td>\n19.6<\/td>\n24.8<\/strong><\/td>\n29.9<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Male<\/td>\n19<\/td>\n21.8<\/strong><\/td>\n24.6<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Female<\/td>\n25.8<\/td>\n28.4<\/strong><\/td>\n31<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
18-35<\/td>\n15.6<\/td>\n18.5<\/strong><\/td>\n21.5<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
36-45<\/td>\n20.8<\/td>\n24.1<\/strong><\/td>\n27.5<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
46-65<\/td>\n25.4<\/td>\n29.4<\/strong><\/td>\n33.4<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
66-<\/td>\n30.3<\/td>\n36.8<\/strong><\/td>\n43.4<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Liberal<\/td>\n18.2<\/td>\n24<\/strong><\/td>\n29.8<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Moderate<\/td>\n21.1<\/td>\n25.3<\/strong><\/td>\n29.6<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Conservative<\/td>\n22.6<\/td>\n27<\/strong><\/td>\n31.4<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Democrat<\/td>\n23.6<\/td>\n26.8<\/strong><\/td>\n30.1<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Independent<\/td>\n20.1<\/td>\n23.9<\/strong><\/td>\n27.7<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Republican<\/td>\n21.1<\/td>\n24.2<\/strong><\/td>\n27.3<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Inductivist has a post up on the public perception of the role genes play in personality via the “GENEEXPS” variable. Though he saw a trend for Republicans to lean slightly toward more of a role for genes, I was struck … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[9,10],"tags":[1129,95,124],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2611"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2611"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2611\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2619,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2611\/revisions\/2619"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2611"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2611"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2611"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}