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Wednesday, August 31, 2016

More geography of police shootings

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In July, I had a post on state differences in the rate of fatal shootings by police, which differ by a lot--the rate in New Mexico or Wyomin...
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Thursday, August 25, 2016

Down the home stretch

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Currently Hillary Clinton leads Donald Trump by about seven percentage points in the polls (48.5% to 41.5%).  That's a good lead, but ...
Thursday, August 18, 2016

Looking in the Mirror

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A 2012 Pew Global Attitudes survey asked people about their opinions of various countries.  Their were twelve cases in which they asked peop...
Monday, August 1, 2016

In the long run, we are still not all free traders

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Few people in politics are speaking up for trade agreements lately.  Hillary Clinton and Tim Kaine have switched from support to opposition ...
Friday, July 29, 2016

There used to be a question

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Since 1972, the General Social Survey has asked "Generally speaking, would you say that most people can be trusted or that you can'...
Thursday, July 21, 2016

Not about Trump

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This post was inspired by a story about the scarcity of Republicans among prominent rock musicians.    However, it;s not about Trump, but ab...
Saturday, July 16, 2016

Geography of police shootings

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The Washington Post has compiled a database of fatal shootings by police in 2015 and 2016 .  Breaking it down by state seems like an obviou...
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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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