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Monday, March 28, 2016

Unsolicited advice

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This is inspired by a post  by Ross Douthat on talk of running a third-party candidate if Donald Trump is the Republican nominee, with the ...
Wednesday, March 23, 2016

Five imaginary surveys

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Carl Morris offered three examples of poll results (see this post by Andrew Gelman for a link and discussion). The numbers are those who sa...
Monday, March 14, 2016

It was a very bad year?

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A fact that will probably be mentioned a lot before November, especially if Hillary Clinton gets the Democratic nomination, is that inequali...
Saturday, March 5, 2016

The movement

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In the fall, I had several posts on why conservatism became a "movement."  I've been thinking about this issue off and on si...
Tuesday, March 1, 2016

Falsifiable predictions

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I experimented with the model for predicting elections discussed in my last post.  I couldn't exactly reproduce Norpoth's results, b...
Friday, February 26, 2016

Stop the presses!

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I was part way through a post on another topic when I heard a story about how Donald Trump was predicted to have a 97% chance of beating Hil...
Sunday, February 21, 2016

More

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For those who can't get enough of my writing, here are two that appeared elsewhere: "The Missing Main Effect of Welfare State Reg...
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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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