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McLaughlin & Associates
Ninth Annual National Undergraduate Student Survey · Sep 7–14, 2023 · US national
Methodology
- Pollster
- McLaughlin & Associates partisan_r
- Sponsor
- William F. Buckley, Jr. Program at Yale (Buckley Institute)
- Commissioned by
- Buckley Institute
- Fielded
- Sep 7–14, 2023
- Population
- four-year, full-time undergraduate students under 25
- Sample size
- 803
- Sample frame
- online opt-in
- Mode
- online survey of undergraduates
- Margin of error
- not disclosed
- Weighting
- not disclosed
- Geography
- US national
- Base notes
- topline header states N=803; the tabulated Total column shows 802. 32.7% private, 67.3% state institutions
Sources
Verification note. Verbatim wording and percentages extracted directly from the Buckley Institute topline PDF (locally parsed). McLaughlin & Associates is a Republican polling firm and the sponsor is an explicitly conservative campus organization; the topline publishes no MOE or weighting statement.
Figures below are transcribed from these documents. Where they disagree with the source, the source governs.
Questions asked (3)
transgender college athletes competing in a league designated for a gender different from assigned sex at birth
WHICH OF THE FOLLOWING COMES CLOSER TO YOUR OPINION ON ALLOWING TRANSGENDER COLLEGE ATHLETES TO PARTICIPATE IN A SPORTS LEAGUE DESIGNATED FOR A GENDER THAT IS DIFFERENT FROM THEIR ASSIGNED GENDER AT BIRTH? 1. TRANSGENDER ATHLETES SHOULD BE ABLE TO PARTICIPATE IN WHICHEVER GENDER CLASS THEY FEEL MORE COMFORTABLE IN. OR 2. THIS IS AN ISSUE OF FAIRNESS. AND WHILE I MAY SUPPORT TRANSGENDER RIGHTS, THIS DISADVANTAGES OTHER ATHLETES BECAUSE THERE ARE BIOLOGICAL DIFFERENCES BETWEEN MEN AND WOMEN.
This is an issue of fairness ... biological differences between men and women
59%
Should be able to participate in whichever gender class they feel more comfortable in
32.1%
Unsure
8.9%
Wording notes: the restrictive option is a full argument while the permissive option is a bare preference statement | the restrictive option preemptively inoculates the respondent ('while I may support transgender rights')
tilts_restrictive — argumentatively asymmetric alternatives: the restrictive side is given a reasoned justification and a face-saving preamble, the permissive side is not
whether the college should require students, professors and faculty to state preferred gender pronouns
DO YOU AGREE OR DISAGREE WITH THE FOLLOWING STATEMENT: "MY COLLEGE OR UNIVERSITY SHOULD REQUIRE THAT STUDENTS, PROFESSORS AND FACULTY STATE THEIR PREFERRED GENDER PRONOUNS WHEN INTRODUCING THEMSELVES."
Wording notes: tests a compulsion frame ('should require') rather than a permission frame
tilts_restrictive — framing the item as an institutional requirement invites opposition on compulsion grounds independent of views about pronouns
whether gender is fixed or can be fluid
WHICH OF THE FOLLOWING COMES CLOSER TO YOUR OWN PERSONAL OPINION? [GENDER IS FIXED / GENDER CAN BE FLUID]
Gender can be fluid
47.9%
Gender is fixed
37.7%
Unsure
14.4%
Wording notes: the stem is contentless - the substance sits entirely in the two response labels, which the topline abbreviates
unclear — the printed stem gives the respondent no context, and the topline does not reproduce whatever fuller alternative text was read