Just the social facts, ma'am

Tuesday, February 8, 2022

Foresight and hindsight

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 By the late spring of 2021, there was a strong correlation between state-level vote for Joe Biden and Covid vaccination rates.  As a resul...
Wednesday, February 2, 2022

Class Consciousness

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 Ross Douthat had a column called "Will a Mask Debate Split Blue States" ?  His argument was that views of masking (and other meas...
Wednesday, January 26, 2022

Punditry and sensationalist headlines

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 A recent op-ed in the New York Times by Cecile Richards (former president of Planned Parenthood) says "Despite years of punditry and ...
Thursday, January 20, 2022

Who's being suppressed?

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A lot of the commentary on the voting laws that Republican legislatures are passing or considering holds that they will not only reduce turn...
Sunday, January 16, 2022

Suppression

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 Traditionally the United States had low rates of voting compared to most democracies, with especially low rates among blacks and the workin...
Tuesday, January 11, 2022

Success

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  This figure shows a summary of answers to three survey questions:   1.  "Hard work offers little guarantee of success"  [agree/d...
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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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