Methodology
- Pollster
- Rasmussen Reports commercial
- Sponsor
- Rasmussen Reports
- Fielded
- May 2023 – May 31, 2023
- Population
- adults
- Sample size
- —
- Sample frame
- mixed-mode probability
- Mode
- telephone and online
- Margin of error
- not disclosed
- Weighting
- not retrieved
- Geography
- US national
Sources
Verification note. 71% agree / 57% strongly agree retrieved from search-result summaries of a Rasmussen release dated June 1, 2023; the Rasmussen page itself was not fetched, so field dates (recorded at month precision), sample size and margin of error are missing. Rasmussen is a partisan-leaning commercial pollster and this item uses an agree/disagree construction, so it is not comparable to PRRI's forced-choice trend.
Figures below are transcribed from these documents. Where they disagree with the source, the source governs.
agreement that there are two genders, male and female
Do you agree or disagree with the following statement?
There are two genders, male and female.
Wording reconstructed from: item text as quoted in secondary coverage of the Rasmussen release; Rasmussen topline not retrieved
Agree (net) 71%
Wording notes: agree/disagree construction, subject to acquiescence bias | offers only the restrictive proposition, with no competing alternative stated
tilts_restrictive — a one-sided agree/disagree statement with no counter-alternative reliably produces higher endorsement than PRRI's forced choice between 'only two' and 'a range of many'; the 71%/65% gap between the two houses in the same year illustrates the effect