Just the social facts, ma'am

Monday, March 30, 2026

Above and below

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 Many people have observed that in the last 5 or 10 years, a gap has emerged between public ratings of economic conditions and standard meas...
Tuesday, March 24, 2026

Whose idea was that?

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A lot of the commentary after Paul Ehrlich's death said that his ideas were popular among liberals and/or "elites."  For examp...
Friday, March 13, 2026

Bad to worse?

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In late 2022, I had a couple of posts about perceptions of moral conditions .  I concluded that assessments had become more negative in the ...
Tuesday, March 3, 2026

No problem

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 Adrian Vermeule, a professor at Harvard Law School, writes that "the Supreme Court faces a serious problem in the court of public opi...
Saturday, February 21, 2026

Old and new

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 I'll start with the new.  The SAVE Act requires proof of citizenship in order to register to vote.  If it were implemented, which party...
Tuesday, February 17, 2026

More than politics

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 A New York Times story yesterday said that the conservative organization PragerU had just released ratings of the American presidents, and...
Saturday, February 14, 2026

The (roughly) three percent

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At one time, it was often said that almost all Americans thought of themselves as part of the middle class, regardless of their actual econo...
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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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