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Table 4 Correlations between the GTQ score and individual difference variables

From: The genetic technologies questionnaire: lay judgments about genetic technologies align with ethical theory, are coherent, and predict behaviour

  1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12
(1) GTQ   − .13 .25* .16+ .23* .17* .13 − .07 − .09 − .08 − .28** − .14+
(2) Political orientation    .08 .19* .00 − .21* − .17* − .18* .42*** .39*** .28*** .23*
(3) SES     .67*** .92*** .33*** .27** − .06 .13 .19* .04 − .19*
(4) Income      .33*** .19* .21* − .10 .19* .15+ − .05 − .26*
(5) Education       .32*** .23** − .03 .06 .17* .08 − .11
(6) Knowledge tested        .26** .12 − .21** − .16+ − .10 .05
(7) Knowledge subjective         .10 − .08 −  .08 − .19* − .16+
(8) Big-5 openness          − .21** − .17* .03 .12
(9) MFQ Purity           .62*** .29** − .07
(10) Religiosity            .29 − .13
(11) Age             .02
(12) Sex (0 = male, 1 = female)             
  1. Pearson correlations, level of significance, two-sided test against 0: +  = .10, * = .05, ** = .01, *** < .001
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BMC Medical Ethics

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