Just the social facts, ma'am

Thursday, January 26, 2023

Politics as a vocation?

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 In November 1943, a NORC survey asked "If you had a son just getting out of school, would you like to see him go into politics as a li...
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Friday, January 20, 2023

Amalgam

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 A few years ago, I noted that public opinion towards Martin Luther King was not all that favorable when he was alive.  Some news stories ...
Sunday, January 15, 2023

Double or nothing?

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 A few days ago, the Washington Post had a story titled "Survey finds ‘classical fascist’ antisemitic views widespread in U.S."   ...
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Tuesday, January 10, 2023

Men are from Williams, women are from UNC-Greensboro

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 I've had a couple of posts on support for free speech among college students.  I mentioned that it differs by ideology ( more support ...
Monday, January 2, 2023

Lost in translation, part 2

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 In October, I had a post on miscommunication of research results .  After Andrew Gelman discussed it in his blog , it went on to become my ...
Thursday, December 29, 2022

Out of the file drawer, part 2

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 My last post was about data on perceptions of moral conditions from 1949 to 2022.  There is a clear decline over the period, but I wanted t...
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Wednesday, December 21, 2022

Out of the file drawer, part 1

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 Sometime around 2000, I searched for questions about the general moral condition of the country.  I wanted to trace changes in the assessme...
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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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