Table 3.
Open-Ended Responses, Percentages of Participants Providing a Given Response Type, Separately by Characteristic, and Overall
| Causal Factor | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|
|
||||||
| Age Group | Transfer | Characteristic | Genetic | Environmental | Choice | Non-Genetic Essentialist |
|
| ||||||
| Adults | Close | Height | 43 | 0 | 0 | 24 |
| Literacy | 0 | 57 | 4 | 0 | ||
| Food selection | 0 | 0 | 96 | 0 | ||
|
|
||||||
| Far | Intelligence | 11 | 13 | 13 | 20 | |
| Athleticism | 11 | 4 | 13 | 17 | ||
| Niceness | 0 | 46 | 7 | 9 | ||
|
|
||||||
| Overall | 50 | 67 | 96 | 35 | ||
|
|
||||||
| Children | Close | Height | 15 | 33 | 1 | 45 |
| Literacy | 0 | 55 | 21 | 0 | ||
| Food selection | 0 | 1 | 93 | 0 | ||
|
|
||||||
| Far | Intelligence | 3 | 43 | 18 | 15 | |
| Athleticism | 6 | 18 | 27 | 19 | ||
| Niceness | 3 | 84 | 43 | 13 | ||
|
|
||||||
| Overall | 19 | 99 | 94 | 54 | ||