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Agreement that one of the big problems in this country is that we don't give everyone an equal chance; the GSS uses a four-point scale and ANES uses a five-point scale.
AI-matched An AI model grouped these questions and mapped their answers onto shared categories, and a second AI review checked and corrected the grouping and mapping. No person has checked it: compare the question wordings and the answer mapping below before reading the lines against each other.
Latest: 35% answered “Disagree” in ANES, 2012.
Dashed lines mark changes in how interviews were done, which can shift answers: 1. ANES → mixed mode (2012).
Shares of everyone asked, including non-answers. Each column is one survey wave, evenly spaced rather than to scale in time; hover for exact shares.
Dashed lines mark changes in how interviews were done, which can shift answers: 1. ANES → mixed mode (2012).
Shares of everyone asked, including non-answers. Each point is one survey wave at the middle of its field period. Lines from different surveys are never spliced together.
Groups differ from everyone by 10 points on average across all answers, in ANES.
| Line | Question | Match | How answers map |
|---|---|---|---|
| ANES | Big problem that not everyone has an equal chance ALL YEARS:
‘One of the big problems in this country is that we don’t give everyone an equal chance.’ Caveat: Five-point scale with a neutral midpoint; strong/somewhat distinction collapsed | identical | Agree strongly → Agree; Agree somewhat → Agree; Neither agree nor disagree → Neither agree nor disagree; Disagree somewhat → Disagree; Disagree strongly → Disagree |
| GSS | Country does not give everyone an equal chance 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.
D. One of the big problems in this country is that we don't give everyone an equal chance Caveat: Four-point scale with no neutral option, so the middle category is never used; the GSS item is part of a battery of social-difference opinions | equivalent | Agree strongly → Agree; Agree → Agree; Disagree → Disagree; Disagree strongly → Disagree |
Dashed lines mark changes in how interviews were done, which can shift answers: 1. ANES → mixed mode (2012).
Groups differ from everyone by 9 points on average across all answers, in ANES.
Dashed lines mark changes in how interviews were done, which can shift answers: 1. ANES → mixed mode (2012).
Subgroup charts are picked automatically. Of every breakdown in the data (party, ideology, age, sex, race, education, income, region, religion, and community type), these two put their groups furthest from everyone’s answers: the gap is averaged across all answer categories and waves, with each group weighted by its share of respondents. Party and ideology count as one choice, so the second chart shows a different kind of split. Groups with an effective sample under 50 in a wave are left out of that wave.