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Sexual-morality trio

Three 4-pt sexual-morality items (HOMOSEX + XMARSEX + PREMARSX) on the same GSS 2024 wave. The within-battery gradient is the second largest in the catalogue (Δ ≈ 2.34) — Americans are overwhelmingly tolerant of premarital sex but overwhelmingly intolerant of extramarital sex, with same-sex relations reading as a sharply bimodal distribution that an SD/skew chip surfaces.

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1 paired studies 3 paired questions Shelf Δ 2.34 4.00 → 1.66
Shape mix: 1 multimodal-symmetric 1 right-skewed 1 bimodal-asymmetric
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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.

If a man and a woman have sex relations before marriage, do you think it is always wrong,...
4.00 (3.93–4.07)
GSS (2024) — Sexual-morality trio (homosex + xmarsex + premarsx) →
What about sexual relations between two adults of the same sex — do you think it is always...
3.46 (3.38–3.54)
GSS (2024) — Sexual-morality trio (homosex + xmarsex + premarsx) →
What is your opinion about a married person having sexual relations with someone other tha...
1.66 (1.62–1.71)
GSS (2024) — Sexual-morality trio (homosex + xmarsex + premarsx) →
1.02.03.04.05.0
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