How scientific: physics

physcsci

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 B. Physics. Is physics 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

year	ballots	availability
2006	B/C	partial
2012	B/C	partial

Link at the GSS

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

See also

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