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Agreement that one has a pretty good understanding of the important political issues facing the country, from two GSS agree-disagree batteries with nearly 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: 61% answered “Strong understanding” in GSS: Good understanding of important political issues, 2016.
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 9 points on average across all answers, in GSS: Good understanding of important political issues.
| Line | Question | Match | How answers map |
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| GSS: Good understanding of important political issues | Good understanding of important political issues How much do you agree or disagree with each of the following statements? PLEASE CHECK ONE BOX ON EACH LINE.
C. I feel that I have a pretty good understanding of the important political issues facing our country Caveat: Agree/disagree scale; midpoint is neutral, not moderate understanding | identical | Strongly agree → Strong understanding; Agree → Strong understanding; Neither agree nor disagree → Moderate / neutral; Disagree → Weak understanding; Strongly disagree → Weak understanding |
| GSS: Good understanding of important political issues in America | Good understanding of important political issues in America To what extent do you agree or disagree with the following statements?
B. I feel I have a pretty good understanding of the important political issues facing America. Caveat: Minor wording change ('America'); same agree scale | equivalent | Strongly agree → Strong understanding; Agree → Strong understanding; Neither agree nor disagree → Moderate / neutral; Disagree → Weak understanding; Strongly disagree → Weak understanding |
Groups differ from everyone by 8 points on average across all answers, in GSS: Good understanding of important political issues.
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.