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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2010 Oct 1.
Published in final edited form as: Polit Psychol. 2009 Oct 1;30(5):805–828. doi: 10.1111/j.1467-9221.2009.00726.x

Table 4.

Descriptive Statistics and Correlation Matrix for Variables in the Student Survey (Study 2)

M SD 1 2 3 4 5 6 7

1. Opp. to contract set-asides 0.57 0.31 --
2. Policy beneficiary (Black) 0.48 0.50 −.23 --
3. Limited government 0.38 0.16 .01 .07 --
4. Liberal-conservative ID 0.41 0.24 .27 −.09 .01 --
5. Political party preference 0.42 0.23 .16 −.09 −.03 .59 --
6. Anti-egal. of opportunity 0.21 0.14 .02 .13 −.03 .17 .23 --
7. Anti-egal. of outcomes 0.41 0.15 .09 .13 −.13 .14 .14 .49 --
8. Symbolic racism 0.46 0.18 .34 −.08 −.09 .35 .27 .27 .24

Note: Means and standard deviations represent the values based on 0-to-1 scales.