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Saturday, December 29, 2012

Education and taste in reading

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In the early days of survey research, there weren't nearly as many surveys as there are today, but they were more likely to venture outs...
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Sunday, December 23, 2012

Still more on gun control

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Back in July, I had a couple of posts on gun control .  Unfortunately, recent events brought the issue back to mind.  Since 1980, the Gallup...
Sunday, December 16, 2012

The Evils of Europe

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During this election, there seemed to be a lot of talk about the danger that Barack Obama was going to turn America into Europe. I recall h...
Monday, December 10, 2012

We wuz robbed, part 2

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A recent survey by Public Policy Polling asked "Do you think that Barack Obama legitimately won the Presidential election this year, o...
Friday, December 7, 2012

Taxes on high, low, and middle incomes

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About a week ago the New York Times had a story on taxes which said that over the last 20 years, the percentage of people who thought high-i...
Friday, November 30, 2012

Who are the rich?

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A 1997 survey by Princeton Survey Research Associates asked "Which one of the following areas of the economy do you think accounts for...
Wednesday, November 21, 2012

Capitalism and Obama

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The survey I mentioned in my last post also asked whether people approved of the job Barack Obama was doing as president.  If you regress ap...
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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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