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How dangerous modifying the genes of certain crops is, asked under a new variable name in 2021 with slightly different wording.
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: 32% answered “Somewhat dangerous” in GSS: Danger of genetically modifying crops, follow-up, 2021.
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.
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 8 points on average across all answers, in GSS: Danger of genetically modifying crops.
Groups differ from everyone by 6 points on average across all answers, in GSS: Danger of genetically modifying crops.
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, and changes run from each group’s first wave to its last.
| Line | Question | Match | How answers map |
|---|---|---|---|
| GSS: Danger of genetically modifying crops | Danger of genetically modifying crops Do you think that modifying the genes of certain crops is: Caveat: Reference wording; danger framed as 'for the environment' in the top and bottom options. | identical | Extremely dangerous for the environment → Extremely/very dangerous; Very dangerous → Extremely/very dangerous; Somewhat dangerous → Somewhat dangerous; Not very dangerous → Not dangerous; Not dangerous at all for the environment → Not dangerous |
| GSS: Danger of genetically modifying crops, follow-up | Danger of genetically modifying crops, follow-up And do you think that modifying the genes of certain crops is… Caveat: 2021 rewording drops 'for the environment' from the scale labels, which could broaden what danger respondents consider. | equivalent | Extremely dangerous → Extremely/very dangerous; Very dangerous → Extremely/very dangerous; Somewhat dangerous → Somewhat dangerous; Not very dangerous → Not dangerous; Not dangerous at all → Not dangerous |