2242|MARCH 1997 BAROMETER

— Degree of interest in current news on various topics. — Opinion on the degree of danger, for people and for the environment, of scientific advances in fields such as biotechnology or genetic engineering. — Assessment of different uses of genetic engineering. — Willingness to consume potatoes genetically treated with corn genes (to increase their nutritional value). — Degree of agreement with the use of genetic engineering, for different purposes, in human cells. — Knowledge of the meaning of the concept ‘cloning’. — Assessment of the possibility that in a few years animal cloning is a common scientific practice. — Opinion on whether in 10 or 20 years it will be possible, scientifically, human cloning. — Phrase with which he agrees more about the need to legally limit research and experiments on human cloning. — Opinion on whether a law should be made in Spain that prevents or limits human cloning. — Assessment of the risks and benefits that the development of science and technology will entail in the next 20 years. — Opinion on the three main problems in Spain. — Evaluation of the current economic situation of the country, retrospective and one-year expectations. — Attitude to the existence in our country of trial with jury. — Personal preference for judge or jury, for sentencing, in the case of being charged in a criminal trial. — Phrase with which you agree more about whether the judges or jurors are the most fair in their decisions. — Personal attitude towards being part of a jury in a trial. — Knowledge of the ‘Otegui case’ (the acquittal, by a jury of San Sebastian, of the accused for the death of two ertzainas). — Phrase with which he agrees more about the need to revise and modify the Law of the Jury after experiences such as the ‘Otegui case’. — Degree of agreement with different opinions on the limits of jurisdiction of the popular jury. — Opinion on the importance of political agreement to carry out a reform of the Jury Law. — Evaluation of the current political situation of the country and expectations to one year. — Knowledge about the holding in the Senate of the debate of the State of Autonomies. Interest with which he has followed the news about the debate and media by which he was informed. — Opinion on the influence of the debate on the improvement of the functioning of the State of Autonomies. — Scale of ideology of the interviewee. — Vote recall in the general elections of March 1996. — Electoral volatility in general elections in March 1996. — Job expectations of employment and unemployment.