GSS 1972-2024 Cumulative Datafile - Release 1

I'd like to get your feelings toward groups that are in the news 
these days. I will use something we call the feeling thermometer, and 
here is how it works: I'll read the names of a group and I'd like you 
to rate that group using the feeling thermometer. Ratings between 50 
degrees and 100 degrees mean that you feel favorable and warm toward 
the group. Ratings between 0 degrees and 50 degrees mean that you 
don't feel favorable toward the group and that you don't care too 
much for that group. If we come to a group whose name you Don't 
recognize, you don't need to rate that group. Just tell me and we'll 
move on to the next one. IF you do recognize the name, but you don't 
feel particularly warm or cold toward the group, you would rate  at 
the 50 degree mark. Our first group is liberals. How would you rate 
this group using the thermometer? 
A. Liberals

I'd like to get your feelings toward groups that are in the news 
these days. I will use something we call the feeling thermometer, and 
here is how it works: I'll read the names of a group and I'd like you 
to rate that group using the feeling thermometer. Ratings between 50 
degrees and 100 degrees mean that you feel favorable and warm toward 
the group. Ratings between 0 degrees and 50 degrees mean that you 
don't feel favorable toward the group and that you don't care too 
much for that group. If we come to a group whose name you Don't 
recognize, you don't need to rate that group. Just tell me and we'll 
move on to the next one. IF you do recognize the name, but you don't 
feel particularly warm or cold toward the group, you would rate the 
group at the 50 degree mark. How would you rate this group using the 
thermometer? 
B. Conservatives

I'd like to get your feelings toward groups that are in the news 
these days. I will use something we call the feeling thermometer, and 
here is how it works: I'll read the names of a group and I'd like you 
to rate that group using the feeling thermometer. Ratings between 50 
degrees and 100 degrees mean that you feel favorable and warm toward 
the group. Ratings between 0 degrees and 50 degrees mean that you 
don't feel favorable toward the group and that you don't care too 
much for that group. If we come to a group whose name you Don't 
recognize, you don't need to rate that group. Just tell me and we'll 
move on to the next one. IF you do recognize the name, but you don't 
feel particularly warm or cold toward the group, you would rate the 
group at the 50 degree mark. How would you rate this group using the 
thermometer? 
C. Protestants

I'd like to get your feelings toward groups that are in the news 
these days. I will use something we call the feeling thermometer, and 
here is how it works: I'll read the names of a group and I'd like you 
to rate that group using the feeling thermometer. Ratings between 50 
degrees and 100 degrees mean that you feel favorable and warm toward 
the group. Ratings between 0 degrees and 50 degrees mean that you 
don't feel favorable toward the group and that you don't care too 
much for that group. If we come to a group whose name you Don't 
recognize, you don't need to rate that group. Just tell me and we'll 
move on to the next one. IF you do recognize the name, but you don't 
feel particularly warm or cold toward the group, you would rate the 
group at the 50 degree mark. How would you rate this group using the 
thermometer? 
D. Catholics

I'd like to get your feelings toward groups that are in the news 
these days. I will use something we call the feeling thermometer, and 
here is how it works: I'll read the names of a group and I'd like you 
to rate that group using the feeling thermometer. Ratings between 50 
degrees and 100 degrees mean that you feel favorable and warm toward 
the group. Ratings between 0 degrees and 50 degrees mean that you 
don't feel favorable toward the group and that you don't care too 
much for that group. If we come to a group whose name you Don't 
recognize, you don't need to rate that group. Just tell me and we'll 
move on to the next one. IF you do recognize the name, but you don't 
feel particularly warm or cold toward the group, you would rate the 
group at the 50 degree mark. How would you rate this group using the 
thermometer? 
E. Jews

I'd like to get your feelings toward groups that are in the news 
these days. I will use something we call the feeling thermometer, and 
here is how it works: I'll read the names of a group and I'd like you 
to rate that group using the feeling thermometer. Ratings between 50 
degrees and 100 degrees mean that you feel favorable and warm toward 
the group. Ratings between 0 degrees and 50 degrees mean that you 
don't feel favorable toward the group and that you don't care too 
much for that group. If we come to a group whose name you Don't 
recognize, you don't need to rate that group. Just tell me and we'll 
move on to the next one. IF you do recognize the name, but you don't 
feel particularly warm or cold toward the group, you would rate the 
group at the 50 degree mark. How would you rate this group using the 
thermometer? 
F. Muslims

A. IF CATHOLIC RESPONDENT, ASK FEPRIEST. OTHERS GO TO FECLERGY.
As I read this statement, will you tell me whether you agree 
strongly, agree somewhat, disagree somewhat, or disagree strongly? 
It would be a good thing if women were allowed to be ordained as 
priests.

B. ASK NON-CATHOLICS ONLY. 
Do you favor or oppose women as pastors, ministers, priests, or 
rabbis in your own faith or denomination?

Using the school grading system of A,B,C,D, and F for Fail, how Do 
you rate your church or religious group in meeting your spiritual 
needs?

A. Do you think there should be laws against marriages between 
(Negroes/Blacks/African-Americans) and whites?

B. Now thinking about ten years ago, that is in 1972, did you then 
think there should be laws against marriages between (Negroes/Blacks) 
and whites?

How strongly would you object if a member of your family wanted to 
bring a (Negro/Black) friend home to dinner?  
Would you object strongly, mildly, or not at all?

Here are some opinions other people have expressed in connection with 
(Negro/Black)-white relations. Which statement on the card comes 
closest to how you, yourself, feel? The first one is . . . 
A. (Negroes/Blacks/African-Americans) shouldn't push themselves where 
they're not wanted.

Here are some opinions other people have expressed in connection with 
(Negro/Black)-white relations. Which statement on the card comes 
closest to how you, yourself, feel? The first one is . . . 
B. White people have a right to keep 
(Negroes/Blacks/African-Americans) out of their neighborhoods if they 
want to, and (Negroes/Blacks/African-Americans) should respect that 
right.