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Tuesday, March 31, 2015

Caring about college

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Scott Walker, an all-but-declared candidate for the Republican presidential nomination, didn't graduate from college.  That's unusua...
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Tuesday, March 24, 2015

Forgotten Beauty

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In March 1951, the Gallup Poll had a question in which they gave people a picture (at that time, the polls were done in person rather than o...
Tuesday, March 17, 2015

If you're so smart.....

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In a review of Robert Putnam's new book , Jason DeParle (a reporter for the New York Times) says "where Putnam succeeds is in des...
Thursday, March 12, 2015

Fifty years

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During the 1930s and 1940s, Fortune magazine sponsored a series of surveys conducted by the Roper Organization.  It was probably the most i...
Thursday, March 5, 2015

Good principle, bad example

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The New York Times had an interview with Alan Krueger and Austen Goolsbee, chairmen of the Council of Economic Advisors in the first Obama...
Friday, February 27, 2015

Choose your facts

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I picked up a copy of the Hartford Courant today and was reading an opinion piece by Jonah Goldberg .  Amidst a bunch of mysterious pop-cult...
Monday, February 23, 2015

Patriotism

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Rudy Giuliani has gotten a lot of attention for saying "I do not believe that the President loves America."   Brendan Nyhan points...
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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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