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Agreement with the statement that other people will take advantage of you if you are not careful, asked on the same five-point agree-disagree scale in two GSS years.
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: 80% answered “Agree” in GSS: Others will take advantage of you if not careful, 2006.
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: Others will take advantage of you if not careful | Others will take advantage of you if not careful To what extent do you agree or disagree with the following statements?
C. If you are not careful, other people will take advantage of you Caveat: Strongly/regular intensity collapsed; item position differs by year | identical | Strongly agree → Agree; Agree → Agree; Neither agree nor disagree → Neither agree nor disagree; Disagree → Disagree; Strongly disagree → Disagree |
| GSS: Others will take advantage of you if not careful | Others will take advantage of you if not careful To what extent do you agree or disagree with the following statements?
B. "If you are not careful, other people will take advantage of you." Do you... Caveat: Strongly/regular intensity collapsed; slightly different item wording and position in battery | identical | Strongly agree → Agree; Agree → Agree; Neither agree nor disagree → Neither agree nor disagree; Disagree → Disagree; Strongly disagree → Disagree |