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Elite Republicans & Democrats vs. the masses
Posted by Razib Khan on July 8, 2009 Over at Secular Right I break down attitudes toward a host of issues as a function of class and party identification. It is interesting to see the issues where class matters more than party, and those where party matters more than class, and where one segment is an outlier. Below the fold are a few…
Who’s afraid of genetic testing?
Posted by Razib Khan on April 9, 2009 The GSS has a variable, GENEGOO2, with an N ~ 2,500, that asks: Some people say that genetic testing may cause trouble. Others think it is a wonderful medical advance. Based on what you know, do you think genetic testing will do more harm than good or more good than harm? Below the fold are…
Young, agnostic, moderately liberal & smart support free speech
Posted by Razib Khan on March 10, 2009 There are several questions regarding speech which which have huge sample sizes in the GSS: SPKRAC (Allow Racist to Speak), SPKHOMO (Allow Homosexual to Speak), SPKCOM (Allow Communist to Speak) and SPKATH (Allow Anti-Religionist to Speak) all have sample sizes of 53,000. This means that one can look for trends at a relatively granular scale.…
People don’t like the word atheist
Posted by Razib Khan on March 9, 2009 The American Religious Identification Survey 2008 is out. It is complementary to the Pew Religious Landscape Survey, and seems to confirm its findings. But its main advantage is that there was a survey in 1990 and 2001, so you have three points in time from which to observe trends.
The Culture Wars will continue
Posted by Razib Khan on March 6, 2009 Some have argued that the Culture Wars are in abatement. Out of curiosity I checked the attitudes toward abortion on demand and homosexuality in the GSS broken down by age & political orientation. The ABANY and HOMOSEX variables. Below are the percentages who agree with abortion on demand as well as the contention that there…
Reader Survey Results
Posted by Razib Khan on February 28, 2009 There are nearly 500 complete responses to the survey from last week. Here’s a CSV file of the results. Below the fold are the frequencies as well as N’s. I might report some trends in the data, but a lot of it is predictable. People who only read ScienceBlogs GNXP are way more liberal than…