Just the social facts, ma'am

Sunday, February 25, 2024

You never know

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 A few weeks ago, I wrote about a claim that "only about four percent of all marriages today are between a Republican and a Democrat....
Friday, February 16, 2024

Two nations?

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 A couple of weeks ago, the New York Times had a piece on the upcoming election that said "Red and Blue Americas are moving farther a...
Saturday, February 10, 2024

All together now?

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 A few days after the 2008 election, a USA Today/Gallup poll asked "In dealing with the problems facing the country, do you think Barac...
Friday, February 2, 2024

Republicans and reality

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 If you go by the standard statistics, the economy is doing very well--unemployment remains low, inflation and interest rates are coming dow...
Monday, January 29, 2024

News not fit to link

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  A recent piece in the New York Times says " In 1960, about 4 percent of Americans said they would be displeased if their child marr...
Friday, January 26, 2024

Indictments

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 After the 2022 election, it looked like Donald Trump's support in the Republican Party was finally weakening. As Trump made a comeback ...
Wednesday, January 17, 2024

You don't dislike me, you really don't dislike me

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 A few days ago, David Brooks wrote that Donald Trump "has an advantage that Haley can't match.  He is reviled by the coastal prof...
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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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