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Agreement with 'I hardly ever expect things to go my way,' among those who agreed or disagreed; the 2004 version has no neutral option, so neutral answers in 2016 are excluded.
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: 4% answered “Agree strongly” in GSS: Hardly ever expecting things to go my way, 2016.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| GSS: Hardly ever expecting things to go my way | Hardly ever expecting things to go my way (HAND CARD G1)
(Do you agree or disagree that . . .)
I hardly ever expect things to go my way. Caveat: 5-point scale with neutral midpoint; code order is reversed relative to the 2004 version | identical | Strongly disagree → Disagree strongly; Disagree → Disagree; Agree → Agree; Strongly agree → Agree strongly |
| GSS: Hardly ever expects things to go my way | Hardly ever expects things to go my way Indicate your agreement with each of the following statements by selecting the number that comes closest to your answer:
G. I hardly ever expect things to go my way. Caveat: 4-point scale with no neutral midpoint; the Neutral category is empty for this question | equivalent | Strongly agree → Agree strongly; Agree → Agree; Disagree → Disagree; Strongly disagree → Disagree strongly |