“Originally annual, the General Social Survey is now undertaken every other year. Approximately 3,000 American adults are interviewed in person for about 90 minutes and asked around 450 questions. Many of these questions have remained constant. For example, respondents have been asked to assess their level of happiness in every survey; their opinions on the legalization of marijuana have been tested 21 times.
Yet some questions appear for only a few surveys, and others suddenly (and tantalizingly) fall from favor. Only once, in 1977, were respondents asked whether they would drive out of their way to avoid an African-American neighborhood. (Thirty-nine percent said they would.) And, after 1994, a question on whether pornography provided an outlet for “bottled-up impulses” was dropped. (On average, 67 percent of those surveyed thought it did.)”
- Op-Art: Who Do You Think We Are?
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The correlation between the first two charts could probably be characterized as an increase in an attitude of "that dude looks like he wants to steal some of my weed"...:)
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