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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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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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