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Saturday, August 31, 2013

Who's the extremist?

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Since 2000, several surveys have asked "overall, would you describe the views and polices of the Democratic/Republican party as too ext...
Monday, August 26, 2013

What do they know?

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The other day, Paul Krugman referred to a poll from 2009 that found 39% of Americans thought that the government should "stay out of Me...
Saturday, August 24, 2013

Which is to blame if a person is poor?

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Since 1964, a number of surveys have asked “In your opinion, which is generally more often to blame if a person is poor: lack of effort on h...
Wednesday, August 21, 2013

Exercising their rights

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One of the more unpopular aspects of "Obamacare" has been its requirement that people buy health care insurance.  I always assumed...
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Thursday, August 15, 2013

Good times, bad times

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A few days ago, the New York Times had a piece by Seth Stephens-Davidowitz , who has a PhD in economics and is now an intern at Google.  He...
Saturday, August 10, 2013

Millionaires

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In 1979 and 1992, Roper surveys asked people if they thought various statements about millionaires were "generally true or generally un...
Thursday, August 1, 2013

Nations and Inflation

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During the 1970s and early 1980s, many sociologists argued that inflation couldn't be fully explained by factors such as the money suppl...
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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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