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What Do Americans Know About International Affairs?
Older adults tend to have higher levels of international knowledge
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- What Do Americans Know About International Affairs?
- Americans’ international knowledge varies a great deal depending on the question
- International knowledge varies significantly by education, age and gender
- Americans span wide range of international knowledge
- High knowledge individuals see EU, NATO more favorably and China less favorably
- Scores on international knowledge scale by education
- Men are more likely to get all international knowledge questions correct; women are more likely to say they are not sure
- Older adults tend to have higher levels of international knowledge
- Republicans and Democrats have similar levels of international knowledge
- Conservative Republicans, liberal Democrats generally score higher on international knowledge scale than more moderate respondents
- International knowledge higher among those who follow international news, foreign policy or have traveled abroad
- Americans span wide range of international knowledge
- Americans with more international knowledge more likely to see China’s influence growing, U.S. influence waning
- Americans with high international knowledge more likely to call issues with China very serious problems
- Scale reliability and factor analysis
- Two parameter item response theory analysis
- Test information function for international knowledge scale
- American Trends Panel recruitment surveys
- Invitation and reminder dates
- Weighting dimensions
- Unweighted sample sizes and error attributable expected at the 95% level of confidence for different groups
- Response rates