Probably Overthinking It

In 2016, Barack Obama gave a commencement address at Howard University, where he said

If you had to choose one moment in history in which you could be born, and you did...

When I go crawling around in data from the General Social Survey, sooner or later I run into Ryan Burge, who writes Graphs About Religion. In his most recent post, he wrote about changes in interpersonal trust, as measured by this GSS question:

Here’s a probability puzzle from a TED-Ed video called Can you solve the frog riddle? by Derek Abbott. It came up recently in this Reddit threa...

This article is one of a series looking at changes in public opinion over the last 50 years, with a focus on culture war topics. In this installment, we’ll look at responses to four questions in the General Social Survey (GSS) related to sexual activity: