Poll: Send in the Clones?
Friday, February 15, 2002
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Polling was conducted by telephone February 12-13, 2002 in the evenings. The sample is 900 registered voters nationwide with a margin of error of ± 3 percentage points.
1. As you may know, scientists have made advances in cloning, where they can reproduce a whole animal from a single cell. Do you think it is acceptable to use cloning to:
| Acceptable | Not acceptable | (DK) | |
| Reintroduce extinct species? | |||
| 12-13 Feb 02 | 20% | 72 | 8 |
| 18-19 Apr 01 | 23% | 69 | 8 |
| 21-22 Jan 98 | 19% | 73 | 8 |
| 5-6 Mar 97 | 19% | 70 | 11 |
| Reproduce endangered species? | |||
| 12-13 Feb 02 | 29% | 64 | 7 |
| 18-19 Apr 01 | 32% | 61 | 7 |
| 21-22 Jan 98 | 28% | 65 | 7 |
| 5-6 Mar 97 | 31% | 60 | 9 |
| Reproduce livestock? | |||
| 12-13 Feb 02 | 23% | 71 | 6 |
| 18-19 Apr 01 | 27% | 66 | 7 |
| 21-22 Jan 98 | 25% | 67 | 8 |
| 5-6 Mar 97 | 28% | 62 | 10 |
| Reproduce a beloved pet such as a dog or cat? | |||
| 12-13 Feb 02 | 12% | 84 | 4 |
| 18-19 Apr 01 | 16% | 79 | 5 |
| Reproduce humans? | |||
| 12-13 Feb 02 | 7% | 89 | 4 |
| 18-19 Apr 01 | 6% | 90 | 4 |
| 21-22 Jan 98 | 6% | 89 | 5 |
| 5-6 Mar 97 | 5% | 89 | 6 |
2. Do you own a dog or a cat as a pet?
| 1. Yes | 56% |
| 2. No | 44 |
| 3. (Not sure) | - |
3. (If yes) If a company announced that a perfect copy of your pet could be made when the pet got old or died, would you order a copy or not?
| 1. Yes | 6% |
| 2. No | 92 |
| 3. (Not sure) | 2 |
4. How likely do you think it is that somewhere in the world a human has already been secretly cloned?
| 12-13 Feb 02 | 18-19 Apr 01 | |
| 1. Very likely | 30% | 29% |
| 2. Somewhat likely | 26 | 31 |
| 3. Not very likely | 20 | 18 |
| 4. Not at all likely | 18 | 17 |
| 5. (Not sure) | 6 | 5 |
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