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Sunday, June 30, 2024

Could it have been worse?

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Among people who viewed Thursday's debate, 60% thought that Trump won and only 21% thought that Biden won .  In this post, I look at pop...
Wednesday, June 26, 2024

Who are they talking about?

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 A recent  survey by RMG Research which is billed as "a first-of-its-kind look at the views of the American Elite " defines "...
Friday, June 21, 2024

The problem is you?, part 3

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 This is a return to the analysis of the geographical origins of people involved in the Jan 6, 2021 assault on the Capitol.  My  original po...
Wednesday, June 12, 2024

The great divide?

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 A couple of weeks ago, Thomas Edsall had a column called " The gender gap is now a gender gulf ," which said that there was growi...
Sunday, June 2, 2024

Equity and Exclusion

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 I don't have time for a longer post now, so here is a quick one.  In 1996, 2004, and 2014, the General Social Survey asked for reaction...
Monday, May 27, 2024

Too soon to tell?

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 Donald Trump currently has a narrow lead in the polls ( about 1% in the 538 average ), so all you can say now is that it could go either wa...
Tuesday, May 21, 2024

The future ain't what it used to be

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 Back in 2011, I wrote about the question  "As you look to the future, do you think life for people generally will get better, or will ...
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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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