2213|ATTITUDES TO SCIENTIFIC AND TECHNOLOGICAL ADVANCES

— Degree of interest and information on the following topics: political, scientific, economic, labor, technological and medical advances, sports, cultural, international, religious and social. — Frequently carrying out activities related to science and technology. — Expectations of the possible risks or benefits that the development of sciences and technologies will bring. — Opinion on the degree of contribution, to improving the quality of life, of the following technological innovations: computer science, genetics, space exploration, biotechnology, solar energy, telecommunications, in vitro fertilisation, nuclear energy and organ transplants. — Preference for more development or limitation, in the coming years, of previous technological innovations. — Degree of agreement with phrases related to the environment and scientific and technological development. — Opinion on the degree of danger, for people and for the environment, of advances in genetic engineering and in the environment. — Opinion on the application of genetic engineering in: the cells of plants, animals and humans, human embryos and bacteria. — Degree of agreement with different opinions on biotechnology and genetic engineering. — Scale of acceptance of the use of genetic engineering for the following purposes: more resistant crops, fattening of livestock and fish, get bacteria that clean the tide of oil, get more milk production, diagnosis of hereditary diseases and application to new medical treatments. — Readiness to consume potatoes to which maize genes have been introduced, to increase their nutritional value. — Degree of agreement with the use of genetic engineering in human cells for the following purposes: improve heredity and prevent it from leading to serious or mild genetic diseases, reduce the risk of subsequent diseases, and improve the intelligence that children can inherit. — Personal interest in a diagnosis and subsequent medical treatment of a genetic nature that corrected defective genes if you have them. — Opinion on what the personality of an individual depends on: biological inheritance/education and environment received. — Opinion on the use of assisted reproduction techniques (in vitro fertilisation or artificial insemination) for couples who cannot and wish to have children. — Personal willingness to use the above techniques. — Use by the interviewee or their partner or family, friends and acquaintances, of these techniques. — Scale of acceptance of different situations where assisted reproduction techniques offer the possibility of having a child. — Preference, before the desire of a child and have fertility problems, assisted reproduction/adoption techniques. — Scale of acceptance of the choice of fertilised eggs to implant in the uterus and thus: avoid genetic diseases, get certain physical or mental characteristics and be able to choose sex. — Personal interest in undergoing a genetic diagnosis and knowing if your child may in the future suffer a serious genetic disease. — Interest, in the case of a pregnancy, to possess information about the fetus in the first months of gestation, and, in the case of a diagnosis of a serious and incurable hereditary disease to perform an abortion. — Degree of willingness to subject a child, already diagnosed that he will suffer a serious genetic disease, to a genetic treatment that corrected the defective genes. — Opinion on who should bear the costs of a serious hereditary illness in a child, when the parents voluntarily decided to have it. — Financing of the Welfare State.