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Friday, December 31, 2021

The wisdom of the people

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 A few years ago, I had a post on questions on "how much trust and confidence do you have in the wisdom of the American people" fr...
Thursday, December 23, 2021

What could happen here?

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 This is a post I've been meaning to write for a while.  The impetus was a column by Ross Douthat on October 5 called "The Once an...
Sunday, December 12, 2021

Afterthoughts

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  Following up on a couple of points from recent posts: 1.  I noted that confidence in newspapers held steady or rose during the Trump year...
Wednesday, December 8, 2021

More on abortion

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 I've had several posts looking at opinions on abortion, as measured by questions on whether it should be legal in particular circumstan...
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Wednesday, December 1, 2021

Keeping up the tradition

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 I had a post on state differences in Covid rates around the beginning of September, another one around the beginning of October, and anothe...
Saturday, November 27, 2021

Decline and fall, part 5

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 To conclude this series of posts, I'll discuss two points:  the distinctive pattern for confidence in organized religion, and deviation...
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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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