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Woodberry, Robert D.; Park, Jerry Z.; Kellstedt, Lyman A.; Regnerus, Mark D.; Steensland, Brian – Social Forces, 2012
Our original article espoused a simple way to recode religious groups on the General Social Survey (GSS) into historically meaningful categories and attempted to steer social scientists away from assigning these groups to a "Liberal-Moderate-Conservative" scale (Smith 1990). Among other problems, such scales create arbitrary cutpoints,…
Descriptors: Protestants, Religion, Religious Factors, Measurement