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Harvard CAPS/Harris

Monthly Harvard CAPS-Harris Poll: December 2022 · Dec 14–15, 2022 · US national

Methodology

Pollster
Harvard CAPS/Harris commercial
Sponsor
Harvard University Center for American Political Studies (Harvard CAPS) and The Harris Poll
Fielded
Dec 14–15, 2022
Population
registered voters
Sample size
1,851
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 and weighted base 1,851.

Sources

Verification note. Wording and percentages read directly from the Harvard CAPS-Harris December 2022 topline PDF, Tables 135-136.

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

Questions asked (2)

Youth medical careforced choicein a trend series
whether a pro-youth-transition tweet should be banned

For each of these Tweets let please indicate if you think Twitter should allow it or ban it? Children as young as nine should take hormones and sex change drugs if they feel they are of another sex.

Ban it
69%
Allow it
31%

Wording notes: the stimulus statement is a strawman - 'children as young as nine should take hormones and sex change drugs' describes no mainstream clinical protocol | 'sex change drugs' is not a clinical term | measures speech moderation, not policy support

loaded_terms — the stimulus is a deliberately extreme paraphrase of youth gender medicine and the response frame is censorship, not agreement; because both the pro (31% allow) and anti (54% allow) statements draw substantial 'ban' shares, the battery mostly measures generalized moderation appetite

Youth medical careforced choicein a trend series
whether an anti-youth-transition tweet should be banned

For each of these Tweets let please indicate if you think Twitter should allow it or ban it? Children under 18 should not be provided sex change hormones, drugs or operations.

Allow it
54%
Ban it
46%

Wording notes: 'sex change hormones, drugs or operations' is not a clinical term | measures speech moderation, not policy support

loaded_terms — mirror-image of TW16_4; notable that 46% would ban the restrictionist statement, the closest thing in this battery to a measure of how contested the topic was treated as being

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