College Student Views on Free Expression and Campus Speech 2022 (2021 fielding) · Jan 2021 – Dec 31, 2021 · US national
Methodology
- Pollster
- Ipsos independent
- Sponsor
- John S. and James L. Knight Foundation
- Commissioned by
- John S. and James L. Knight Foundation
- Fielded
- Jan 2021 – Dec 31, 2021
- Population
- 18- to 24-year-olds who are current college students or enrolled in some post-high-school education
- Sample size
- 1,023
- Sample frame
- probability panel
- Panel
- Ipsos KnowledgePanel
- Mode
- online - Ipsos KnowledgePanel and youth panel
- Margin of error
- not disclosed
- Weighting
- not disclosed in the 2024 trend table
- Geography
- US national
- Base notes
- Exact 2021 field dates were not stated in the 2024 report used as the source for these trend figures.
Sources
Verification note. Percentages taken from the trend chart in the 2024 Knight-Ipsos report, which prints 2017/2021/2024 side by side. The 2021 report itself was not retrieved, so field dates, weighting and margin of error are unconfirmed; field_start/field_end are placeholders bounding the calendar year and date_precision is 'year'. The 2017 version of this item omitted the gender-identity definition and is therefore out of scope for this database.
Figures below are transcribed from these documents. Where they disagree with the source, the source governs.
whether hate speech attacking people on the basis of gender identity (among other characteristics) should be protected by the First Amendment
The U.S. Supreme Court has repeatedly ruled that hate speech - which attacks people based on their race, religion, gender identity or sexual orientation - is legally protected free speech.
The U.S. Supreme Court has repeatedly ruled that hate speech - which attacks people based on their race, religion, gender identity or sexual orientation - is legally protected free speech. Do you think hate speech is a form of expression that should or should not be protected by the First Amendment?
No, should not be protected
47%
Yes, should be protected
42%
Skipped
12%
Wording notes: gender identity appears only inside the definition of hate speech | stem asserts the Supreme Court's holding before asking the opinion
loaded_terms — the preamble states the legal answer before asking the normative question