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**Key design features**
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* **Crime-framing experiment.** Respondents read a mock police-blotter story with experimentally varied details (suspect race, number of break-ins, presence/absence of racial information) before answering questions about policy, crime perceptions, and social spending.
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* **Panel structure.** A subset of respondents was re-contacted after Election Day, enabling within-person analyses of opinion change.
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## File Manifest
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## Possible Use Cases
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1. **Election-season opinion dynamics** –
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2. **Stereotype activation & policy support** – estimate causal effects of suspect-race cues on punitive crime policies or welfare attitudes.
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3. **Replication exercises** – reproduce classic findings from ANES or GSS items using a contemporary MTurk sample; ideal for teaching regression, causal inference, or text analysis (e.g., coding open-ended crime causes in `Q10`).
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4. **Value trade-off scaling** – model latent moral or parenting value dimensions with the paired choice items (`Q33`–`Q36`).
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**Key design features**
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* **Crime-framing experiment.** Respondents read a mock police-blotter story with experimentally varied details (suspect race, number of break-ins, presence/absence of racial information) before answering questions about policy, crime perceptions, and social spending.
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* **Demographics & ideology.** Over 50 items capture party identification, vote choice, income, employment security, family status, education, racial identity, and core value trade-offs.
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* **Panel structure.** A subset of respondents was re-contacted after Election Day, enabling within-person analyses of opinion change.
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## File Manifest
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## Possible Use Cases
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1. **Election-season opinion dynamics** – analyze the before/after panel to examine how campaign events (debates, the Comey letter, Election Day) shifted perceptions of crime, policing, or redistribution.
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2. **Stereotype activation & policy support** – estimate causal effects of suspect-race cues on punitive crime policies or welfare attitudes.
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3. **Replication exercises** – reproduce classic findings from ANES or GSS items using a contemporary MTurk sample; ideal for teaching regression, causal inference, or text analysis (e.g., coding open-ended crime causes in `Q10`).
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4. **Value trade-off scaling** – model latent moral or parenting value dimensions with the paired choice items (`Q33`–`Q36`).
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