Just the social facts, ma'am

I thought I just had a few odds and ends to clear up regarding my last post, but then I ran across a post from January .  That was about a c...

In my last post, I observed that four different measures of racial attitudes in the General Social Survey all had big moves in a liberal dir...

A few days ago, Andrew Gelman sent me a question from Elin Litman on a puzzling finding from the 2018 GSS.  He included my reaction in a po...

The 2018 General Social Survey is out.  Since the GSS is given every two years in the early part of the year, 2018 is the first one since th...

I had some posts on the electoral college a few weeks ago.  After Andrew Gelman discussed them on his blog , I thought more about the issue....

In November 2018, I had a post about the difference between elite and popular ideologies.  Politicians can be classified as simply liberal,...

The percent in favor of electing the president by popular vote in surveys ending on October 9, 2011 and November 20, 2016:                ...