Does this pattern hold only for certain subgroups or is it relatively constant across race, age, gender, and education? Previous research has found such variables are related to attitudes about both genetics and race and therefore might condition the vignettes’ effects on belief in essential racial differences (Hunt 2007; Jayaratne et al. 2006; Parrott et al. 2005; Shostak et al. 2009). Because our outcome measure asks about racial differences, the pattern might particularly be expected to differ by race, and we address this question first.
