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Agreement that Whites do not go to great lengths to understand the problems African Americans face, asked in the CES in 2020, 2022, and 2024.
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Latest: 29% answered “Strongly agree” in CES: Whites don't try to understand problems Black Americans face, 2024.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| CES: Whites do not try to understand problems African Americans face | Whites do not try to understand problems African Americans face How much do you agree or disagree with the following statements? [Whites do not go to great lengths to understand the problems African Americans face.] Caveat: 2020 wording truncated ('the problem'), otherwise same scale | equivalent | Strongly agree → Strongly agree; Somewhat agree → Somewhat agree; Neither agree nor disagree → Neither agree nor disagree; Somewhat disagree → Somewhat disagree; Strongly disagree → Strongly disagree |
| CES: Whites do not try to understand problems Blacks face | Whites do not try to understand problems Blacks face How much do you agree or disagree with the following statements? [Whites do not go to great lengths to understand the problems African Americans face.] Caveat: Same wording and scale | identical | Strongly agree → Strongly agree; Somewhat agree → Somewhat agree; Neither agree nor disagree → Neither agree nor disagree; Somewhat disagree → Somewhat disagree; Strongly disagree → Strongly disagree |
| CES: Whites don't try to understand problems Black Americans face | Whites don't try to understand problems Black Americans face How much do you agree or disagree with the following statements? [Whites do not go to great lengths to understand the problems African Americans face.] Caveat: Same wording and scale | identical | Strongly agree → Strongly agree; Somewhat agree → Somewhat agree; Neither agree nor disagree → Neither agree nor disagree; Somewhat disagree → Somewhat disagree; Strongly disagree → Strongly disagree |