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How scientific: history

Source: R/gss_vars_376.R
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Source

General Social Survey https://gss.norc.org

Details

Question Please look at Card B20. How scientific are each of the following fields? If you have not heard of a particular field, just say you haven't heard of it C. History. Is history very scientific, pretty scientific, not too scientific, or not scientific at all?

Values

  • [1] very scientific

  • [2] pretty scientific

  • [3] not too scientific

  • [4] not scientific at all

  • [5] haven't heard of it (volunteered)

  • [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(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

Question Years and Ballots

ballotsyears
B/C2006, 2012

Overview

For further details see the GSS Data Explorer page for histsci.

Counts by year:

yeariapvery scientificpretty scientificnot too scientificnot scientific at allhaven't heard of it (volunteered)don't knowno answerTotal
2006264619538967653965544510
201214776210920310211551974
Total412325749887964177096484

See also

Other Science Knowledge & Attitudes: physcsci, sciimp2, sciimp3, sciimp4, sciimp5, sciimp6, sciimp7, sciimp8, socsci

Other Science: physcsci, sciimp2, sciimp3, sciimp4, sciimp5, sciimp6, sciimp7, sciimp8, socsci