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Wednesday, June 10, 2020

Tolerance--a long-delayed part 2

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This post is inspired by the controversy over T om Cotton's NY Times op-ed which let to the resignation of the Times opinion editor.  S...
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Wednesday, June 3, 2020

Geography of police shootings: not much change

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In 2016, I had several posts on fatal police shootings.  Unfortunately, the issue of killing by police has come up again, so I went back  to...
Saturday, May 30, 2020

Footnote 3

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I located the questions on limiting executive salaries that I mentioned the other day: March 2009 (Fox News/Opinion Dynamics) Do you think...
Thursday, May 28, 2020

Salary limits

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In 1939, a Roper/Fortune survey asked: "Do you think there should be a law limiting the amount of money any individual is allowed to ...
Thursday, May 21, 2020

Footnote 2

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In a post about the claim of rising "despair" among less educated people, I noted that when asked "Some people say that peop...
Monday, May 18, 2020

Footnote

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The New Yorker has an article called " How Greenwich Republicans Learned to Love Trump ."  It deals with an important issue--how T...
Saturday, May 16, 2020

What were they thinking?

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On May 5, the Council of Economic Advisers sent out a tweet that got a lot of attention: " To better visualize observed data, we also...
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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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