Genetic Genealogy as a Window into Genomic Science: Racial Boundary Blurring and Reification

The data include four short vignettes that specify hypothetical individuals of various racial and ethnic backgrounds who have submitted their "DNA" for genealogical testing. The vignette provides the test’s "results," manipulating them in various ways. Respondents are then asked to react to the posited results. The four questions, the three response categories, and the positive or negative pole within each response category are randomly ordered. The gender of the hypothetical person matches that of the respondent. The race of the hypothetical person matches that of the respondent for questions 1 and 2, but will differ from that of the respondent for questions 3 and 4. (For purposes of this survey experiment, we treat black, white, Hispanic, Asian American, and multiracial as mutually exclusive and conceptually identical “races.”)

本数据集包含四段简短情境 vignettes，设定了不同种族与族裔背景的假想个体，这些个体均提交了“DNA”样本用于家谱检测。该情境会呈现检测的“结果”，并通过多种方式对检测结果进行操控。随后将要求受访者针对该预设的检测结果作出回应。四道问题、三类应答选项，以及每类应答选项中的正向或负向倾向维度均会被随机排序。假想个体的性别与受访者性别保持一致。在第1、2题中，假想个体的种族与受访者种族一致；而在第3、4题中，二者种族则存在差异。（为开展本次调查实验，我们将黑人、白人、西班牙裔、亚裔美国人以及多种族群体视为互斥且概念上等价的“种族”类别。）