Table 3.
Percent of Respondents Reporting One, Two, or Three Causal Factors
| Respondents who reported… | Intelligence | Math | Athleticism | Drive to Succeed |
Nurturance | Violence | Sexual Orientation |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| W | B | W | B | W | B | W | B | W | B | W | B | W | B | |
| Genes only | 22 | 1 5 | 18 | 12 | 6 | 6 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 2 | 3 | 20 | 9 |
| Environment only | 3 | 6 | 3 | 5 | 2 | 5 | 3 | 4 | 10 | 10 | 4 | 7 | 4 | 3 |
| Choice only | 3 | 12 | 6 | 18 | 2 | 11 | 4 | 12 | 3 | 12 | 2 | 7 | 19 | 33 |
| Genes and environment only | 23 | 11 | 14 | 8 | 10 | 5 | 4 | 3 | 8 | 4 | 11 | 7 | 5 | 3 |
| Genes and choice only | 8 | 13 | 10 | 11 | 8 | 11 | 4 | 4 | 3 | 6 | 2 | 5 | 8 | 9 |
| Environment and choice only | 8 | 1 3 | 14 | 2 2 | 15 | 26 | 44 | 45 | 38 | 39 | 30 | 35 | 28 | 29 |
| Genes, environment, and choice | 33 | 30 | 35 | 24 | 57 | 36 | 40 | 30 | 36 | 25 | 49 | 36 | 16 | 14 |
| Total percent | 100 | 100 | 100 | 100 | 100 | 100 | 100 | 100 | 100 | 100 | 100 | 100 | 100 | 100 |
Note. Respondents categorized as genetic, environmental or choice if they reported that at least “some” of the characteristic was due that causal factor; W=White respondents B=Black respondents; bold, italicized percentages indicate modal response.