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Thursday, April 30, 2020
Who believes in meritocracy?
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This is a return to one of my regular topics: the claim that successful people feel more disdain (or at least less concern with) ordinary p...
Sunday, April 26, 2020
Kicks in a plane
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In 2016, a paper came out saying that the presence of a first-class cabin led to more incidents of "air rage" and that front boar...
Saturday, April 18, 2020
A day to remember?
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During every presidential campaign, candidates make "gaffes" which occupy the attention of the media for a few days. Most of them...
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Thursday, April 9, 2020
Deaths of despair?
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In my last couple of posts, I've looked at how people with and without college degrees feel about their lives. People without college d...
Friday, April 3, 2020
Lives of despair?, part 2
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This continues my last post, where I was looking at changes in answers to general questions about life and expectations for the future. The...
Thursday, April 2, 2020
Lives of despair?
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In the last few years, there's been a lot of discussion of the rise of "deaths of despair" (drugs, alcohol, and suicide) among...
Saturday, March 28, 2020
He's just not that into us
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John Sides had a piece in the Washington Post called "Surprisingly few voters think Trump cares about 'people like me.'"...
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