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How well does Stated Risk Preference predict Americans' AI Support?

The current data support the following: Good to know:

Methods, briefly

General Risk Question from Individual Risk Attitudes: Measurement, Determinants, and Behavioral Consequences. For more detail, please read Thinking Machines, Pondering Humans.

On a seven-point agreement scale, randomly selected American adults responded to the item: I support further development of artificial intelligence. From 2024-02-16 forward, I have collected 6767 responses.

I have presented detailed methods in Americans' Support for AI Development - Measured Daily with Open Data and Methods. The results in this PDF research article are, of course, out-of-date as compared to this autonomous, daily-updating, social science dashboard inator you are currently viewing. Last updated on .

Do you like p-values, standard errors and such? Inspect the collapsed details below to view the regression results that support the statements above.

Yes, you may see and use the raw survey data.

Call:
lm(formula = Support ~ Risk_Preference, data = .)

Residuals:
    Min      1Q  Median      3Q     Max 
-5.0029 -0.6657  0.3791  0.9971  2.9073 

Coefficients:
                Estimate Std. Error t value Pr(>|t|)    
(Intercept)     0.092653   0.046049   2.012   0.0443 *  
Risk_Preference 0.191025   0.007887  24.220   <2e-16 ***
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Signif. codes:  0 ‘***’ 0.001 ‘**’ 0.01 ‘*’ 0.05 ‘.’ 0.1 ‘ ’ 1

Residual standard error: 1.554 on 6765 degrees of freedom
  (2 observations deleted due to missingness)
Multiple R-squared:  0.07979,	Adjusted R-squared:  0.07966 
F-statistic: 586.6 on 1 and 6765 DF,  p-value: < 2.2e-16

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