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Friday, April 26, 2013

Looking good

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The New York Times recently had a story on a Dove advertisement about women's views of their own appearance .  According to the story, ...
Thursday, April 18, 2013

A forgotten turning point

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Rand Paul recently gave a speech in which he asked " How did the Republican Party, the party of the Great Emancipator, lose the trust a...
Saturday, April 13, 2013

Another try

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I wasn't satisfied with the analysis in my last post , so I decided to try looking at it another way.  My starting point was the observa...
Tuesday, April 9, 2013

Before and After Thatcher

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A lot of the commentary (at least in the US) on Margaret Thatcher's death seems to agree that she "turned around" the British ...
Thursday, April 4, 2013

More racial resentment

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A few weeks ago, I wrote about trends in "racial resentment."  I have found another question that seems relevant, from surveys by...
Monday, April 1, 2013

Sundown in America?

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A couple of days ago, the New York Times published a piece by David Stockman  in which he said that " we’ve had eight decades of increa...
Tuesday, March 26, 2013

How to become a millionaire

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In 1979 and 1992, the Roper Organization did surveys that contained a number of questions about millionaires.  For one, they handed people a...
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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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