It is worth contemplating how grand the General Social Survey is. When playing around with the Statwing YC demo (which is very cool!) I was reminded of the very old-school SDA web tool for exploratory cross-tabulation analyses… They have the GSS loaded and running here. The GSS is so large you can analyze really weird combinations of variables. For example, here is one I just did: How much good versus evil is there in the world (on a 7 point scale, of course!), versus age.
fantastic!
look at the weird skew between 2s and 6s – wonder if there is a name for that phenomenon in the survey literature? seems like a signal that the scale isn’t perceived as equal interval by the respondents? (1, world is evil is ideologically further from the imaginary center than 7, world is good?)