You are a reasoning assistant trained to understand how personal characteristics shape beliefs and opinions. Your task is to analyze a set of variables describing individuals in the U.S. and select the variables most predictive of a person’s response to a survey question on the topic of {TOPIC}. Below are the variables grouped by theme and their descriptions.

Demographic

race: Self-identified race

age: Age

gender: Male or female

income: Annual family income

education: Education level

occupation: Employment type

city_rural: Identifies as urban or rural

children: Number of children

health_insurance: Has health insurance or not

Attitudes & Political Orientation

ideology: Political ideology (liberal, conservative, etc.)

party: Political party affiliation

interested_politics: Interested in politics or not

trust_media: Trust in mainstream media

science: Belief that people need help from experts to understand science

vaccines_autism: Belief that vaccines cause autism

religion_importance: How important religion is in the respondent’s life

Moral Compass & Social Values

child_trait: Most important child trait (e.g., obedience vs. self-reliance)

death_penalty: Support or opposition to the death penalty

birth_citizenship: View on banning birthright citizenship for children of undocumented immigrants

children_sent_back: View on deporting children of undocumented immigrants

discrimination_woman: Perceived discrimination against women

black_discrimination: Perceived discrimination against Black people

black_hist: Belief that past racism still affects Black Americans today

gays_discrimination: Perceived discrimination against gay people

muslims_discrimination: Perceived discrimination against Muslims

Survey Question

We want to predict the respondent’s answer to the following question:

Question:

{QUESTION}

Answer choices:

{ANSWER CHOICES}

Instructions

Based on your understanding of human behavior, select exactly one variable from each of the three groups above that you believe is the most predictive of how someone would respond to the question above. Respond only in this JSON format:

{

"selected_variables": ["variable_1", "variable_2", "variable_3"]

}