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Wednesday, April 26, 2023

What difference will it make?

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 I've had several posts about the following question:  "In America, each generation has tried to have a better life than their pa...
Friday, April 21, 2023

Views of recent immigrants, 1986-2015

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 In 1986, a CBS News/NY Times survey asked "Overall, would you say most recent immigrants to the United States contribute to this count...
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Saturday, April 15, 2023

The same old story?

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Since my last post, one week ago, the tone of commentary on Ron DeSantis has become more negative--there have been comparisons to also-rans ...
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Friday, April 7, 2023

How could they?

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A few weeks ago, Thomas Edsall had a column that began "Donald Trump’s 2016 election victory continues to confound election experts. ...
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Wednesday, April 5, 2023

Red district, blue district

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 It's become common to speak of "red" and "blue" states, and to note that the "blue" (Democratic) states a...
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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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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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