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Agreement that science makes our way of life change too fast; the 1988 item is agree/disagree and the 2006-2022 item uses a four-point agreement scale, so they can only be compared after collapsing.
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: 53% answered “Disagree” in GSS: Science makes our way of life change too fast, 2022.
Dashed lines mark changes in how interviews were done, which can shift answers: 1. GSS: Science makes our way of life change too fast → web (2021).
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.
Dashed lines mark changes in how interviews were done, which can shift answers: 1. GSS: Science makes our way of life change too fast → web (2021).
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.
Groups differ from everyone by 9 points on average across all answers, in GSS: Science makes our way of life change too fast.
Dashed lines mark changes in how interviews were done, which can shift answers: 1. GSS: Science makes our way of life change too fast → web (2021).
Groups differ from everyone by 8 points on average across all answers, in GSS: Science makes our way of life change too fast.
Dashed lines mark changes in how interviews were done, which can shift answers: 1. GSS: Science makes our way of life change too fast → web (2021).
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: Science makes our way of life change too fast | Science makes our way of life change too fast Here are some things that have been said about science. Would you tell me if you tend to agree or disagree with them?
B. One trouble with science is that it makes our way of life change too fast. Caveat: Binary agree/disagree; wording slightly different ('One trouble with science is that...') | equivalent | Agree → Agree; Disagree → Disagree |
| GSS: Science makes our way of life change too fast | Science makes our way of life change too fast I'm going to read to you some statements like those you might find in a newspaper or magazine article. For each statement, please tell me if you strongly agree, agree, disagree, or strongly disagree.
B. Science makes our way of life change too fast. Caveat: Four-point scale collapsed to agree/disagree; intensity lost, no neutral option | equivalent | Strongly agree → Agree; Agree → Agree; Disagree → Disagree; Strongly disagree → Disagree |