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Agreement that no one would study for years to become a lawyer or doctor unless they expected to earn much more than ordinary workers; the 1990 version has no neutral option, so neutral answers in 1987 and 2000 are excluded.
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Latest: 23% answered “Disagree” in GSS: People need high pay to study for demanding professions, 2000.
Shares of people whose answer maps onto these categories (non-answers and answers outside the scale are left out), because surveys differ in whether they offer “don’t know.” Each column is one survey wave, evenly spaced rather than to scale in time; hover for exact shares.
Shares of people whose answer maps onto these categories (non-answers and answers outside the scale are left out), because surveys differ in whether they offer “don’t know.” Each point is one survey wave at the middle of its field period. Lines from different surveys are never spliced together.
| Line | Question | Match | How answers map |
|---|---|---|---|
| GSS: People need high pay to study for demanding professions | People need high pay to study for demanding professions Do you agree or disagree . . .
D. No one would study for years to become a lawyer or doctor unless they expected to earn a lot more than ordinary workers. Caveat: Offers a neutral midpoint that cannot be mapped; the neutral share is excluded. | equivalent | Strongly agree → Strongly agree; Agree → Agree; Disagree → Disagree; Strongly disagree → Strongly disagree |
| GSS: No one would study for years without high pay | No one would study for years without high pay Here are different opinions about social differences in this country. Please tell me for each one whether you strongly agree, somewhat agree, somewhat disagree, or strongly disagree.
C. No one would study for years to become a lawyer or doctor unless they expected to earn a lot more than ordinary workers Caveat: Four-point scale with no neutral option; the intro says 'somewhat' but the codes are agree and disagree. | identical | Agree strongly → Strongly agree; Agree → Agree; Disagree → Disagree; Disagree strongly → Strongly disagree |