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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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