IVR
Rasmussen Reports
Rasmussen Reports / American Thinker - Wisconsin · Sep 19–22, 2024 · US: Wisconsin
Methodology
- Pollster
- Rasmussen Reports partisan_r
- Sponsor
- Rasmussen Reports and American Thinker
- Commissioned by
- American Thinker
- Fielded
- Sep 19–22, 2024
- Population
- likely voters
- Sample size
- 1,071
- Sample frame
- IVR
- Mode
- national telephone and online survey; automated telephone interviews (IVR) combined with an online sample; field work by Pulse Opinion Research, LLC
- Margin of error
- +/- 3 percentage points
- Weighting
- not disclosed in the public release; Rasmussen weights to demographic targets for age, race, gender, political party and other variables
- Geography
- US: Wisconsin
Sources
Verification note. Wording and percentages read directly from the publicly accessible Rasmussen/American Thinker Wisconsin topline page. Sponsor was American Thinker, a conservative online magazine; the survey was fielded by Rasmussen Reports.
Figures below are transcribed from these documents. Where they disagree with the source, the source governs.
Questions asked (2)
Identity beliefsagree/disagree
belief that there are only two genders
Do you agree or disagree with this statement: There are only two genders?
Wording notes: 'only two genders' rather than Rasmussen's national 'There are two genders, male and female' - the word 'only' converts a descriptive statement into an exclusive claim | single-statement agree/disagree format
loaded_terms — worth comparing directly against Rasmussen's national item: adding 'only' and dropping 'male and female' cuts strong agreement from around 60% nationally to 47% in this Wisconsin sample. Some of that is the state sample, but the wording change is the likelier driver
Youth medical caresupport/oppose
gender transition therapy for minors
Do you support or oppose gender transition therapy for minors, to include hormone replacement therapy and gender reassignment surgery?
Wording notes: the published topline labels the response options 'Strongly agree / Somewhat agree / Somewhat disagree / Strongly disagree' even though the question asks support/oppose - a scale/stem mismatch in the instrument as published | bundles hormone replacement therapy with 'gender reassignment surgery' | no mention of parental consent or medical supervision
tilts_restrictive — two problems compound: the response scale does not match the question stem as published, and the stimulus bundles hormones with surgery. The 42% 'strongly disagree' should not be read as a clean measure of opposition to any single intervention