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Further survey results

Explore the intriguing differences between geneticists vs. non-biologists in their analysis of race and scientific results.

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I have now reformatted the responses into a csv file. So you can do something boring like create a scatterplot with Excel, as above. Or, you can import into R and dig for more interesting patterns. Here is an updated to the PDF which shows you the simple non-crossed results. Also, out of curiosity I separated respondents into geneticists vs. non-biologists (so I exclude biologists who are not geneticists from this analysis). First, here are the non-biologists on race:

And now the geneticists:

For what it's worth, I agree with the 66% of geneticists. The sample size is small and biased, but still interesting nonetheless.

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