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In your day-to-day life how often have any of the following things happened to you? People act as if they think you are not smart.
People act as if you are not smart · Asked in 4 waves, 2018–2024 · 8,775 responses · weighted estimates computed from individual responses
Dashed lines mark changes in how interviews were done, which can shift answers: 1. → web (2021).
Shares of people who gave an answer. Each column is one wave, evenly spaced rather than to scale in time; hover for exact shares.
| Group | Almost every day | At least once a week | A few times a month | A few times a year | Less than once a year | Never | n | MoE |
|---|
| Poll | Field dates | Mode | Respondents | Responses |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| General Social Survey 2024 | 2024-04-05 to 2024-12-02 | mixed | 3,309 | 2,242 |
| General Social Survey 2022 | 2022-05-08 to 2023-01-08 | mixed | 3,544 | 2,337 |
| General Social Survey 2021 | 2020-12-03 to 2021-05-02 | web | 4,032 | 2,622 |
| General Social Survey 2018 | 2018-04-12 to 2018-11-10 | face to face | 2,348 | 1,574 |
Dashed lines mark changes in how interviews were done, which can shift answers: 1. → web (2021).
Shares of people who gave an answer. A group’s column is left blank in waves where its effective sample is under 50; hover for exact shares.
| All respondents | 7% | 6% | 10% | 22% | 20% | 36% | 2242 | ±3 |
| White | 6% | 5% | 10% | 22% | 20% | 37% | 1531 | ±4 |
| Black | 8% | 8% | 12% | 22% | 13% | 35% | 401 | ±7 |
| Other races | 8% | 6% | 7% | 24% | 25% | 31% | 259 | ±8 |
General Social Survey 2024 · US adults 18+ living in households (English, and Spanish since 2006). Shares of people who gave an answer. n is unweighted; ± is the 95% margin of error at 50% from the weighted effective sample. Groups with an effective sample under 50 are grayed; under 20, hidden.