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Monday, September 30, 2013

In honor of the government shutdown

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Everyone agrees that there is a lot less trust and willingness to compromise in Washington than there used to be.  What's less clear is ...
Thursday, September 26, 2013

More risk-taking

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Around 1989, the Times-Mirror corporation sponsored a survey called "The Pulse of Europe."  The United States wasn't included,...
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Tuesday, September 24, 2013

Risk-taking

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In 1946, a Roper/Fortune survey asked "Here are three different kinds of job: A job which pays quite a low income, but which you were ...
Saturday, September 21, 2013

Food Stamps

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Conservatives have tried to label Obama the "food stamp president," but my impression was that they haven't gotten a lot of tr...
Thursday, September 12, 2013

What's the difference?

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People in most of Western Europe work shorter hours than people in the United States.  One plausible explanation is differences in tastes:  ...
Sunday, September 8, 2013

Millionaires, 1979-92

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Last month, I wrote about a Roper survey that asked people if they thought various statements about millionaires were generally true or gen...
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...
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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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