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Yascha Mounk wrote an article in @TheAtlantic touting a survey which affirms his prior beliefs, but failed to mention his advisory role in the project.pic.twitter.com/7z118NZ1Cc
Mounk focuses on the finding that 80% of Americans agree "Political correctness is a problem in our country."
While many similar questions in the survey ask respondents "Which do you agree with more?", the political correctness item uses a standard Likert response scale.
But we don't know for sure because the full report of the study doesn't include the question in the codebook.
As a general rule, one ought to be skeptical of *any* claim that 80% of Americans agree on a political issue.
I suspect that this 80% finding wouldn't hold up if you gave respondents a competing option and guess what—it doesnt!
The pre-election wave of the 2016 ANES (@electionstudies) asks the following question about political correctness:pic.twitter.com/vN4qQKIpAD
Turns out 42% think "the way people talk needs to change" while 56% think "people are too easily offended".
Do respondents differ across ethnoracial categories? You bet!pic.twitter.com/ctWeXPJAof
About 3-in-4 self-identified conservatives (points 5-7) say people are too easily offended, but only 1-in-3 self-identified liberals (points 1-3) share this view.pic.twitter.com/Io22bg3Lz6
out of curiosity, do you know how these seven groups were determined? was this a fancy algorithmic deal or is this just them conjuring stuff out of thin air?
nvm, found it. cluster analysis. i will bite my tongue.
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