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Harvard CAPS/Harris

Monthly Harvard CAPS-Harris Poll: March 2022 · Mar 23–24, 2022 · US national

Methodology

Pollster
Harvard CAPS/Harris commercial
Sponsor
Harvard University Center for American Political Studies (Harvard CAPS) and The Harris Poll
Fielded
Mar 23–24, 2022
Population
registered voters
Sample size
1,990
Sample frame
online opt-in
Panel
The Harris Poll online panel
Mode
online survey, Harris Poll online panel
Margin of error
not disclosed
Weighting
weighted for age within gender, region, race/ethnicity, marital status, household size, income, employment, political party, political ideology, and education
Geography
US national
Base notes
Unweighted base 1,990; weighted base 2,000.

Sources

Verification note. Wording and percentages read directly from the Harvard CAPS-Harris March 2022 topline PDF. The individual-item table (US20_2, Table 124) confirms 66/34.

Figures below are transcribed from these documents. Where they disagree with the source, the source governs.

Questions asked (1)

Identity beliefsforced choicein a trend series
whether 'there are only two genders' should be censored online

Next, we would like to show you some things people might say on the web. For each one, indicate if you think they should be permitted to say that on the web or should be censored and removed. There are only two genders, male and female

Stay on the web
66%
Censored and removed
34%

Wording notes: the trans-related item is embedded in a list that also includes Holocaust denial and a threat against the President, which anchors it against extreme speech | measures speech tolerance, not agreement with the statement

unclear — this is not a measure of belief about gender - it measures whether respondents would censor the statement. Its placement in a battery anchored by Holocaust denial makes the 66% 'stay on the web' figure a statement about speech norms, and it is frequently miscited as a belief measure

Every figure on this page is transcribed from the source linked above. How to read this data →