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Thursday, April 24, 2025

Getting the wrong idea

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 In an op-ed in the Washington Post , Mitch Daniels said that higher education "has failed to deliver value: Its prices rocketed upward...
Thursday, April 17, 2025

Separate ways

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 A few days ago, Andrew Gelman  observed that views on scientific authority have become more politically polarized in over the last few deca...
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Tuesday, April 8, 2025

Postscript

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 In my last post, I forgot to mention that in 2004 they asked whether American trade policy towards other countries was fair or unfair.  Peo...

Totally unfair

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Sometimes Donald Trump has said that tariffs are good in themselves and other times he has said that they're just a bargaining chip to g...
Tuesday, April 1, 2025

Motes and beams

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Starting in May 2020, the Fox News poll asked "do you plan to get a vaccine shot against coronavirus when a vaccine becomes available, ...
Sunday, March 23, 2025

Which way is up?

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 A few days ago, the New York Times printed a discussion among David Brooks, Ross Douthat, David French and Bret Stephens.  The moderator, P...
Saturday, March 15, 2025

Where the ducks are?

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Since the 2024 election, a lot of people have said that the way for the Democrats to win is to move towards the center.   A few days ago, T...
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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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