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scistudy

Source

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

Details

Question Now, for a slightly different type of question. When you read news stories, you see certain sets of words and terms. We are interested in how many people recognize certain kinds of terms. First, some articles refer to the results of a scientific study. When you read or hear the term scientific study, do you have a clear understanding of what it means, a general sense of what it means, or little understanding of what it means?

Values

  • 1 clear understanding

  • 2 general sense

  • 3 little understanding

  • 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

yearballotsavailability
2006B/C/-partial
2008A/B/Cfull
2010A/C/-partial
2012B/C/-partial
2014B/C/-partial
2016A/B/-partial
2018A/B/-partial

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

See also

Other Science Knowledge & Attitudes: astrolgy, astrosci, balneg, balpos, expdesgn, exptext, odds1, scibnfts, scitext