Pre-Analysis Plan for \"Americans' Knowledge of the U.S. Supreme Court\"

Recent research suggests that political scientists have understated popular knowledge of the U.S. Supreme Court. This research implies that popular knowledge of other aspects of government has been understated as well. The implication may be correct. But these revisionist studies of political knowledge may err in the other direction, by overstating popular knowledge of politics. Focusing on the Supreme Court, we will use an experiment conducted with a representative national sample to test the idea that inferences about popular knowledge of politics depend heavily on little-appreciated aspects of survey design and analysis.