2412|OPINIONS AND ATTITUDES OF SPANISH TOWARDS BIOTECHNOLOGY
Description
- Degree of interest and information you have on cultural, economic and labor issues, sports, political issues, scientific and technological advances, international issues, ecology and medical advances.
- Opinion on the risks and benefits that the development of science and technology will bring in the next twenty years. Opinion on whether risks or benefits will predominate.
- Degree according to phrases related to science and technology.
- Opinion on the degree of contribution to improving the quality of life of different innovations or advances: information or computer technology, genetic engineering, space exploration, biotechnology, solar energy, internet, telecommunications, in vitro fertilisation, nuclear energy and organ transplants. Opinion on whether in the future these scientific advances will improve or worsen the quality of life. Fields in which he would like there to be more or less scientific advances in the coming years.
- Degree of information you have about 'genetic engineering' or 'biotechnology'.
- Opinion on the degree to which advances in biotechnology are dangerous for people and the environment.
- Agreement with the application of genetic engineering techniques in: plant cells, bacteria, animal cells, human cells and in human embryos.
- Scale of acceptance or rejection of the use of genetic engineering for: making crops more resistant to frost and pests; making livestock fatter faster; getting the bacteria to clean up the black tides; diagnose hereditary diseases of people and to apply new treatments.
- Agreement on the use of genetic engineering techniques in agriculture and food production.
- Degree according to different phrases on genetically modified foods.
Willingness to consume genetically modified potatoes by introducing maize genes. Attitude in case they were cheaper.
- Degree of confidence that the foods we buy are healthy and do not involve health risks.
- Opinion on the mandatory warning on the labelling of foods if they have been genetically modified.
- Knowledge of the Human Genome project. Opinion on the importance of this project.
- Grade according to the use of genetic engineering for: prevent children from inheriting serious diseases; cure serious genetic diseases; improve the physical characteristics that children can inherit and to improve the intelligence that children can inherit.
- Degree of interest that, in the future, medical diagnoses of a genetic nature could be made to determine whether or not certain genes are possessed.
- Persons or entities that would have the right to know the results of their genetic analysis: your doctor, your company, the police, insurance companies and the state.
- Attitude towards assisted reproduction techniques. Personal willingness to use them if necessary.
- Use of assisted reproduction techniques by the interviewee, a relative or a friend or acquaintance.
- Personal preference in case the couple has fertility problems and wishes to have a child: adoption or use of assisted reproduction techniques.
Attitude towards the scientific experiments that are being carried out in the cloning of cells.
- Opinion on whether human cloning will be possible in ten or twenty years.
- Attitude towards human cloning. Opinion on whether a law should be drafted in Spain to prevent the cloning of human beings.
- Political ideology scale of the interviewee.
- Remembrance of vote in general elections in March 2000.
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Tags
- valores-y-actitudes
- ciencia-y-tecnología
- alimentación
- biotecnologías
- salud
- estudio-cuantitativo