Comments on: Berkeley SDA and the General Social Survey http://brenocon.com/blog/2012/08/berkeley-sda-and-the-general-social-survey/ cognition, language, social systems; statistics, visualization, computation Tue, 25 Nov 2025 13:11:20 +0000 hourly 1 By: Greg Laughlin http://brenocon.com/blog/2012/08/berkeley-sda-and-the-general-social-survey/#comment-1092265 Greg Laughlin Sat, 08 Feb 2014 11:04:04 +0000 http://brenocon.com/blog/?p=1755#comment-1092265 Funny, I just saw this blog post, and about a month ago we happen to have taken the GSS and stuck it into Statwing to make it super easy to play around with:

http://blog.statwing.com/open-data-the-general-social-survey-40-years-of-results/
(Direct link to dataset: https://export.statwing.com/p0/datasets/dat_c5PMCMjP3nSEEHLK9fUVIIgvtdgWgzHV )

Such an awesome dataset.

]]> By: andrew http://brenocon.com/blog/2012/08/berkeley-sda-and-the-general-social-survey/#comment-175036 andrew Wed, 22 Aug 2012 04:18:17 +0000 http://brenocon.com/blog/?p=1755#comment-175036 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?)

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