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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2018 Nov 1.
Published in final edited form as: Prev Med. 2017 Jun 1;104:71–78. doi: 10.1016/j.ypmed.2017.05.024

Table 4.

Comparison of cultural cognition worldview among heterosexual and non-heterosexual (LGB) U.S. adults, survey data 2014–2015

Overall sample
(n)
Heterosexual
weighted % (95%CI)
LGB
weighted % (95%CI)
p-value
Sometimes the government needs to make laws that keep people from hurting themselves Disagree 4,216 36.26 (35.16, 37.35) 35.62 (30.87, 40.37) 0.7989
Agree 6,951 63.74 (62.65, 64.84) 64.38 (59.63, 69.13)
It’s not the government’s business to try to protect people from themselves Disagree 4,428 41.51 (40.38, 42.64) 47.47 (42.61, 52.33) 0.0178
Agree 6,733 58.49 (57.36, 59.62) 52.53 (47.67, 57.39)
The government should stop telling people how to live their lives Disagree 3,575 33.90 (32.80, 34.99) 38.00 (33.31, 42.70) 0.0878
Agree 7,583 66.10 (65.01, 67.20) 62.00 (57.30, 66.69)
The government should put limits on the choices individuals can make so they don’t get in the way of what’s good for society Disagree 7,085 62.06 (60.96, 63.17) 61.40 (56.74, 66.05) 0.7841
Agree 4,075 37.94 (36.83, 39.04) 38.60 (33.95, 43.26)