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Friday, March 31, 2023

Transvaluation of some values

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 The values poll continues to get attention--since my last post, I've seen three New York Times columns discussing it (Ross Douthat, Pet...
Tuesday, March 28, 2023

What's wrong?

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 A series of questions from a new survey sponsored by the Wall Street Journal is getting a lot of attention.  The figure that's been cir...
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Monday, March 20, 2023

Wokeness

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 There have been numerous efforts to define "woke" in the past week or two.  A common problem with the ones I've seen is that ...
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Wednesday, March 15, 2023

'Twas a famous victory

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 In September 2015, a Pew survey asked "Thinking about the way things are going in politics today...on the issues that matter to you wo...
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Friday, March 10, 2023

Three kinds of polarization

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I'll start by answering a question in a comment on my last post:  where can you get these data?  One way is to download the data from th...
Wednesday, March 1, 2023

I'm OK, you're OK

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 A recent  Rasmussen poll asking people if they agree or disagree that "it's OK to be white" has gotten a lot of attention.  2...
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Friday, February 24, 2023

One more on the media

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 While doing one of my recent posts, I looked at the Gallup report on their question about "trust and confidence in the mass media .....
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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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