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Wednesday, November 29, 2023

Judgment and opinion

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 Exactly a year ago, I had a post about a survey question from 1993 on whether members of Congress should follow public opinion or their o...
Saturday, November 18, 2023

It's all over now?, part 2

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 I wasn't going to have another post on this topic, but then I read an article in the New York Times that drew parallels between Biden...
Tuesday, November 14, 2023

It's all over now?

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Donald Trump has generally been leading Joe Biden in recent polls of how you would vote if an election were held today.  How much does this ...
Wednesday, November 8, 2023

Predistribution and redistribution

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 The change in the connection between education and party--a shift of educated voters towards the Democrats and less educated voters towards...
Monday, October 30, 2023

From ignorance to knowledge and back again

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 I didn't intend to post again this soon, but I read a story in the New York Times and saw this passage:  "In the United States, ...
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Sunday, October 29, 2023

Criminal tendencies, part 2

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 In my last post, I said that perceptions of change in crime rates responded to actual conditions.  This post looks as party differences.  T...
Friday, October 27, 2023

Criminal tendencies

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 People sometimes say that we are moving into a "post-truth" world where facts have less influence on what people think than they ...
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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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