Political-policy trio
Three dichotomous policy items spanning the U.S. partisan spectrum — death penalty, gun permit, marijuana legalisation — asked of the same 2024 wave. The shelf-Δ is intentionally narrow: all three sit at majority-favor, so an SSR re-run has to reproduce a flat consensus rather than a wide gradient.
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paired studies
3
paired questions
Shelf Δ
0.25
3.74 → 3.48
Shape mix:
2
bimodal-asymmetric
1
multimodal-symmetric
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.
Would you favor or oppose a law which would require a person to obtain a police permit bef...
3.74 (3.66–3.82)
Do you think the use of marijuana should be made legal or not?
3.68 (3.56–3.81)
Do you favor or oppose the death penalty for persons convicted of murder?
3.48 (3.40–3.57)
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