Federal spending priorities
3-pt Likert across 23 federal-spending items, GSS 2024 — including the natfare/natfarey split-ballot that isolates the welfare vs assistance-to-the-poor wording effect.
1
paired studies
23
paired questions
Shelf Δ
2.53
4.38 → 1.85
Shape mix:
15
bimodal-asymmetric
7
multimodal-symmetric
1
left-skewed
Cross-fixture comparison
sorted by source mean ↓
Every paired question on this shelf, on the same 1-5 SSR axis. The gradient between the top and bottom rows is the shelf's acceptance test — a synthetic re-run on this topic has to land each row within its source CI to be useful.
Are we spending too much, too little, or about the right amount on improving the education...
4.38 (4.33–4.44)
Are we spending too much, too little, or about the right amount on improving the nation's...
4.32 (4.26–4.38)
Are we spending too much, too little, or about the right amount on halting the rising crim...
4.26 (4.20–4.32)
Are we spending too much, too little, or about the right amount on education? (Y-ballot wo...
4.25 (4.19–4.31)
Are we spending too much, too little, or about the right amount on assistance to the poor?...
4.23 (4.17–4.29)
Are we spending too much, too little, or about the right amount on dealing with drug addic...
4.20 (4.14–4.26)
Are we spending too much, too little, or about the right amount on assistance for childcar...
4.10 (4.05–4.14)
Are we spending too much, too little, or about the right amount on improving and protectin...
4.09 (4.03–4.16)
Are we spending too much, too little, or about the right amount on Social Security?
4.09 (4.05–4.14)
Are we spending too much, too little, or about the right amount on drug rehabilitation? (Y...
3.99 (3.92–4.05)
Are we spending too much, too little, or about the right amount on highways and bridges?
3.82 (3.77–3.86)
Are we spending too much, too little, or about the right amount on solving problems of big...
3.76 (3.69–3.84)
Are we spending too much, too little, or about the right amount on developing alternative...
3.66 (3.61–3.71)
Are we spending too much, too little, or about the right amount on improving the condition...
3.63 (3.56–3.71)
Are we spending too much, too little, or about the right amount on supporting scientific r...
3.57 (3.52–3.61)
Are we spending too much, too little, or about the right amount on assistance to Blacks? (...
3.39 (3.31–3.47)
Are we spending too much, too little, or about the right amount on national defense? (Y-ba...
3.15 (3.08–3.23)
Are we spending too much, too little, or about the right amount on welfare?
3.04 (2.96–3.12)
Are we spending too much, too little, or about the right amount on the military, armaments...
3.03 (2.96–3.11)
Are we spending too much, too little, or about the right amount on space exploration? (Y-b...
2.91 (2.84–2.98)
Are we spending too much, too little, or about the right amount on space exploration?
2.82 (2.75–2.89)
Are we spending too much, too little, or about the right amount on foreign aid?
1.95 (1.89–2.02)
Are we spending too much, too little, or about the right amount on assistance to other cou...
1.85 (1.79–1.92)
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