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Sunday, April 29, 2012

Are women becoming less happy?

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In the 1970s, women were slightly happier than men, as measured by questions like "would you say that you are very happy, pretty happy,...
Saturday, April 21, 2012

Diversity without preferences

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Most people oppose racial preferences in hiring.  For example, a 2001 poll sponsored by the John J. Heldrich Center for Workforce Developmen...
Tuesday, April 17, 2012

The Constitution

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A Roper survey of 1971 asked people to choose from three statements:  a.  "Our form of government, based on the constitution, has stoo...
Sunday, April 8, 2012

An obligation to have children?

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A recent book by a philosopher, David Benatar, says that we do not believe that people have an obligation to have children.  (I haven't...
Tuesday, April 3, 2012

Job Satisfaction

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Many surveys have found that 80-90 percent of people say they are satisfied with their jobs. Recently I saw a reference to one that found a...
Tuesday, March 27, 2012

Conspiracies

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There has been some debate lately about whether conservatives are more inclined to believe in conspiracy theories than liberals.  You can c...
Thursday, March 22, 2012

More missing data

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A few years ago, I looked for data on corruption in the states.  I thought there would be something along the lines of Transparency Internat...
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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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