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Wednesday, November 29, 2017

Make America Well-informed Again?

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In the New York Times, Timothy Egan lament s American's ignorance about government and public affairs, and says that things used to be d...
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Wednesday, November 22, 2017

Four more years

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In a recent post, I referred to a post on changes in response to the question "What do you think the chances are these days that a whi...
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Thursday, November 16, 2017

Revise and resubmit

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After reading my last post, my esteemed friend Robert Biggert urged me to take a look at rates of immigration, and pointed to this column b...
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Saturday, November 11, 2017

and why were they there?

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As I said in my last post, Donald Trump did better than Mitt Romney had in states with few "minorities" (blacks or Hispanics) and ...
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Sunday, November 5, 2017

Where were they?

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By and large, the states in which Trump did well in last year's election were the states in which Mitt Romney did well in 2012.  The fig...
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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...
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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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