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Tuesday, October 7, 2025

Left, right, and elite

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  Ross Douthat writes "the political right has plenty of popular support but considerably less influence inside the managerial systems...
Saturday, September 27, 2025

When after all it was you, not me, part 2

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 Following up on some of the points in my last post: 1.  The Pew Research Center did some experiments with opt-in vs. probability-based onl...
Thursday, September 18, 2025

When after all it was you, not me

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 Since the murder of Charlie Kirk, people have been reposting one of his tweets from earlier this year, in which he said "assassination...
Sunday, September 14, 2025

The data I needed

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 A new paper by Craig Volden, Jonathan Wai, and Alan E. Wiseman looks at the educational background of members of Congress over a 50-year pe...
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Tuesday, September 9, 2025

What do you know?

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 I've had several posts about the connection between tastes in reading and political views.  The basic conclusion is that people with...
Friday, August 29, 2025

Long term, short term, part 2

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 My last post showed that conservative confidence in science, education, and medicine dropped over the last several years.  What about other...
Wednesday, August 20, 2025

Long term, short term

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 The General Social Survey has a series of questions about confidence in "the people running" various institutions that has been a...
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David Weakliem
I was a professor of sociology at the University of Connecticut from 1994 until my retirement in 2021. I am editor of the journal Comparative Sociology. My new book, Public Opinion, was published by Polity in 2020. Hypothesis Testing and Model Selection in the Social Sciences was published by The Guilford Press in April 2016.
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