Just the social facts, ma'am

 The General Social Survey has a series of questions about confidence in "the people running" various institutions that has been a...

 I hadn't intended to have so many posts on this issue, but people keep talking about it.  In the New York Times today, Robert Putnam an...

 Some further notes on the evidence regarding a "friendship recession." 1.  My last post mentioned a survey from 2019 that asked a...

 In my last post, I noted that the evidence for a “friendship recession” came down to one survey conducted in 2021.  In that survey, the num...

 For a while I had a lot of posts about the claim that there has been a decline in social connection.  I was reminded of the issue by a New ...

 In 1965, there was a Harris poll of college students.  One of the questions involved showing people a list of authors and asking if any wer...

 As I mentioned in my last post, I have a number of new posts planned (dealing with confidence in institutions and the relation between coll...