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General Social Survey https://gss.norc.org
Question 121. People have different images of the world and human nature. We'd like to know the kinds of images you have. Here is a card with sets of contrasting images. On a scale of 1-7 where would you place your image of the world and human nature between the two contrasting images? d. 1. Human nature is basically good. 7. Human nature is fundamentally perverse and corrupt.
For further details see the official GSS documentation.
Counts by year:
| year | iap | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | don't know | no answer | people are evil | people are good | Total |
| 1972 | 1613 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1613 |
| 1973 | 1504 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1504 |
| 1974 | 1484 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1484 |
| 1975 | 1490 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1490 |
| 1976 | 1499 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1499 |
| 1977 | 1530 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1530 |
| 1978 | 1532 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1532 |
| 1980 | 1468 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1468 |
| 1982 | 1860 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1860 |
| 1983 | 1599 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1599 |
| 1984 | 1473 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1473 |
| 1985 | - | 316 | 269 | 264 | 86 | 46 | 6 | 26 | 104 | 417 | 1534 |
| 1986 | 1470 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1470 |
| 1987 | - | 314 | 319 | 429 | 139 | 50 | - | 34 | 141 | 393 | 1819 |
| 1988 | - | 301 | 255 | 370 | 92 | 43 | 5 | 18 | 87 | 310 | 1481 |
| 1989 | 531 | 217 | 179 | 235 | 57 | 31 | 1 | 17 | 53 | 216 | 1537 |
| 1990 | 444 | 193 | 169 | 262 | 63 | 34 | 2 | 8 | 32 | 165 | 1372 |
| 1991 | 158 | 277 | 257 | 298 | 120 | 60 | 2 | 81 | 70 | 194 | 1517 |
| 1993 | 1606 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1606 |
| 1994 | 1522 | 319 | 265 | 388 | 122 | 43 | 4 | 19 | 77 | 233 | 2992 |
| 1996 | 1913 | 182 | 199 | 243 | 91 | 35 | 2 | 6 | 65 | 168 | 2904 |
| 1998 | 1387 | 295 | 279 | 368 | 123 | 57 | 5 | 14 | 91 | 213 | 2832 |
| 2000 | 2817 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 2817 |
| 2002 | 2765 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 2765 |
| 2004 | 2812 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 2812 |
| 2006 | 4510 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 4510 |
| 2008 | 2023 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 2023 |
| 2010 | 2044 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 2044 |
| 2012 | 1974 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1974 |
| 2014 | 2538 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 2538 |
| 2016 | 2867 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 2867 |
| 2018 | 2348 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 2348 |
| 2021 | 4032 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 4032 |
| 2022 | 3544 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 3544 |
| Total | 60357 | 2414 | 2191 | 2857 | 893 | 399 | 27 | 223 | 720 | 2309 | 72390 |
1 people are good
7 people are evil
NA(d) don't know
NA(i) iap
NA(j) I don't have a job
NA(m) dk, na, iap
NA(n) no answer
NA(p) not imputable
NA(q) not imputable
NA(r) refused
NA(s) skipped on web
NA(u) uncodeable
NA(x) not available in this release
NA(y) not available in this year
NA(z) see codebook