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Agreement that most people are better informed about politics than the respondent, asked under two GSS variable names with near-identical 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: 6% answered “Strongly agree” in GSS: Most Americans are better informed about politics than I am, 2014.
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.
Groups differ from everyone by 13 points on average across all answers, in GSS: Most people are better informed about politics than I am.
| Line | Question | Match | How answers map |
|---|---|---|---|
| GSS: Most people are better informed about politics than I am | Most people are better informed about politics than I am How much do you agree or disagree with each of the following statements? PLEASE CHECK ONE BOX ON EACH LINE.
E. I think most people are better informed about politics and government than I am Caveat: Reference wording; 5-point agree-disagree scale. | identical | Strongly agree → Strongly agree; Agree → Agree; Neither agree nor disagree → Neither agree nor disagree; Disagree → Disagree; Strongly disagree → Strongly disagree |
| GSS: Most Americans are better informed about politics than I am | Most Americans are better informed about politics than I am To what extent do you agree or disagree with the following statements?
C. I think most people in America are better informed about politics and government than I am. Caveat: Wording says 'most people in America' and 'to what extent'; the scale is the same. | equivalent | Strongly agree → Strongly agree; Agree → Agree; Neither agree nor disagree → Neither agree nor disagree; Disagree → Disagree; Strongly disagree → Strongly disagree |
Groups differ from everyone by 11 points on average across all answers, in GSS: Most people are better informed about politics than I am.
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.