[Update: Sam Wilson weighs in.]
The noble Sam Wilson pointed out a problem with this morning’s abortion regressions. My dependent variable, ABORTION, was constructed by another GSS user. This user coded people who weren’t asked about abortion as “no’s.” The true yes/no split on “abortion for any reason” is 41/59. Here are the corrected regressions using ABANY as the dependent variable.
Regressing abortion views on sexual partners, age, age squared, year, and sex:
Adding a control for ideology:
Adding controls for church attendance and Biblical literalism:
Main change: The absolute magnitude of all the main coefficients rises by roughly 50%, leaving the relative role of ideas and interests about the same. Main difference: Number of male sexual partners now looks about 50% more important than number of female sexual partners.
Still, I messed up, and I apologize.
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