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Friday, August 31, 2018

Who's the problem (part 2)

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Here are graphs showing changes in the average rating of the "honesty and ethical standards" in various occupations.  There were a...
Tuesday, August 28, 2018

Who's the problem? (part 1)

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Some people argue that people are unhappy with the state of American economy and society because of things like slow economic growth and ris...
Sunday, August 26, 2018

Ideology and morality

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About a week ago, Donald Trump advised people to " study the late Senator Joseph McCarthy ."  It turns out that I have been thinki...
Sunday, August 19, 2018

It's the rich wot gets the gravy

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"If ______ is elected President, do you think the policies of his/her administration will favor the rich, favor the middle class, favor...
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Wednesday, August 15, 2018

Postscript

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I had a post a few weeks ago about satisfaction with life in general, specifically:  "Here is a ladder symbolic of the 'ladder of ...
Saturday, August 11, 2018

Love him or hate him

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Only about 40-45% of people say they approve of the job Donald Trump is doing as President, but it's often said that his supporters are ...
Wednesday, August 8, 2018

By popular demand

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I had a post a couple of years ago about the effect of height and weight on earnings for men and women.  Basically, the pattern seemed to b...
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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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