Just the social facts, ma'am

Sunday, October 29, 2017

Evidence

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I looked for surveys that were relevant to the issues discussed in my last post, and found one sponsored by CNN and conducted by the Opinion...
Tuesday, October 24, 2017

The policy that dare not speak its name

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A summary of public opinion on immigration: 1.  Strong majorities think that people who were brought here as children should be allowed to...
Tuesday, October 17, 2017

Raise the bar?

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A paper published in Nature Human Behavior proposes changing "the default P-value threshold for statistical significance for claims of...
Wednesday, October 11, 2017

Then and now

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Ta-Nehisi Coates has a piece called " Civil-Rights Protests Have Never Been Popular ," in which he notes that in 1966, 63% of peop...
Friday, October 6, 2017

A hypothesis

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For some reason that I don't recall, I looked at Edward Banfield's The Unheavenly City Revisited  (1974) the other day and ran acros...
Saturday, September 30, 2017

The secret of his success

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Donald Trump's overturn of the DACA program has been unpopular, and reaction to the Cotton-Perdue plan to change immigration law has bee...
Monday, September 25, 2017

The owl of Minerva, part 3

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In May I had a post about factors associated with support for Donald Trump in the presidential election.  This post elaborates about one of ...
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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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