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Published in final edited form as: Soc Probl. 2016 Jan 8;63(1):21–45. doi: 10.1093/socpro/spv028

Table 3.

Effects of Verbal Ability on Anti-Black Prejudice and Attitudes toward Segregation and Discrimination

Variable	LOR (SE)		OR (SE)		Marginal Effects (SE)
Anti-black prejudice
Blacks are unintelligent	–.252	(.044)^***	.778	(.035)^***	–.036	(.006)^***
Blacks are lazy	–.205	(.033)^***	.815	(.027)^***	–.046	(.007)^***
Oppose having black neighbors	–.225	(.038)^***	.798	(.030)^***	–.043	(.007)^***
Oppose black-white intermarriage	–.285	(.040)^***	.752	(.030)^***	–.053	(.007)^***
Attitudes toward segregation and discrimination
Whites have no right to segregate nhoods	.331	(.034)^***	1.392	(.047)^***	.055	(.005)^***
Blacks and whites should attend same schools	.407	(.065)^***	1.502	(.097)^***	.033	(.005)^***
Blacks face labor market discrimination	.297	(.101)^**	1.346	(.136)^*	.057	(.019)^**
Blacks face housing market discrimination	.203	(.107)^†	1.225	(.132)^†	.039	(.020)^†

Notes: Data come from white respondents to the 1972-2010 waves/ballots of the General Social Survey that included racial attitude items and the verbal ability test. Effect estimates are based on logistic regression models that control for age, period, cohort, geographic region, educa tion, father's education, mother's education, and father's occupational status. Results are combined estimates from ten multiple imputation data sets.

^†

p < .10

p < .05

^**

p < .01

^***

p < .001 (two-sided tests of no effect)