Sunday, February 27, 2011

"You can't have one group who are the haves and one group . . . who are the have-nots”

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Those egalitarian sentiments are from Scott Walker, the governor of Wisconsin. By “the haves,” he doesn't mean people who actually have...
Sunday, February 20, 2011

More choices

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I looked to see if there were any later questions on living in the "horse-and-buggy days" versus the present.  There didn't se...
Tuesday, February 15, 2011

Those were the days

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In March 1939, a Gallup Poll asked "Do you think you would rather lived [sic] during the horse-and-buggy days instead of now?"  25...
Tuesday, February 8, 2011

Of happiness and despair we have multiple measures

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About a year ago, Andrew Oswald and Stephen Wu published some research on state differences in people's satisfaction with their lives ....
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Thursday, January 27, 2011

What's good for ______ is good for the country

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A Gallup survey in March 2010 asked about the “health care bill currently being considered by Congress” which was passed soon after. It ask...
Monday, January 17, 2011

The public or the polls

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Several Gallup polls have asked "If the leaders of our nation followed the views of the public more closely, do you think the nation wo...
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Thursday, January 6, 2011

Just give me money

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In 1951, a Gallup poll asked "Which of these two jobs would you personally prefer a son of yours to take--assuming he is equally qualif...