Using radio buttons to populate a text field

Hi
This is my first time creating Adobe Forms and my first time using JavaScript as well. One of the questions on my form asks about Ethnicity and I have about 15 choices for which I created radio buttons. I want the user's choice to populate a textfield, but am not sure how to write the code that will do this. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks

If you set the export value (aka Button Value, Radio Button Choice) of each radio button to the text you want to show up in the text box, the custom calculate script for the text box, which you should set to read-only, can be simply:
(function () {
    // Get the value of the radio button group, as a string
    var s = getField("Ethnicity").valueAsString;
    // Set this field's value to the text associated with the selected radio button
    event.value = s === "Off" ? "" : s;
If none of the radio buttons is selected, the text field will be blank. Change "Ethnicity" above to the actial name of the radio button group.

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