David Weakliem

Four posts on the "male friendship recession"--justthesocialfacts.blogspot.com/2025/08/friend…

Favorite authors and political views in 1965, and what that suggests about the contemporary "diploma divide": justthesocialfacts.blogspot.com/2025/07/on-eve…

Finally a new blog post: which party would be better at keeping the country prosperous? 1948-2024 justthesocialfacts.blogspot.com/2025/07/i-coul…

When did students at "elite" colleges turn away from the Republicans? justthesocialfacts.blogspot.com/2025/06/colleg…

More on Covid school closures: experts, the public, and partisanship justthesocialfacts.blogspot.com/2025/05/mood-i…

Trump administration vs. Harvard: where does the public stand? Plus, which Trump policies are more popular and which are less: justthesocialfacts.blogspot.com/2025/05/and-wh…

Confidence in science, medicine, and education among liberals and conservatives--when did they diverge?justthesocialfacts.blogspot.com/2025/04/separa…

Trump thinks that "we have been treated very unfairly (to put it mildly) by other countries for many years"--does the public agree? justthesocialfacts.blogspot.com/2025/04/totall…

Trump's approval rating is declining, but more people are saying that the country is going in the right direction--what's going on? justthesocialfacts.blogspot.com/2025/03/which-…

Has polarization reduced the potential gain from moving to the center? justthesocialfacts.blogspot.com/2025/03/where-…

News sources and beliefs about whether Donald Trump would try to be a dictator (as of December 2024): especially differences between consumers of new and traditional media justthesocialfacts.blogspot.com/2025/03/dictat…

What's happened to Donald Trump's approval ratings since the start of his second term? justthesocialfacts.blogspot.com/2025/02/gettin…

One more post on whether there has been a vibe shift (short answer: maybe, but not in the direction people usually say) justthesocialfacts.blogspot.com/2025/02/vibe-s…

Following up on my post on predatory publishing: 1. Listing people as editors without their knowledge is more common than I'd realized--see this article from 2017 link.springer.com/article/10.118… 2. There is a directory of legitimate open access journals at doaj.org

New blog post: news sources and beliefs about 2020 and 2024 elections--differences between new and traditional media justthesocialfacts.blogspot.com/2025/02/news-a…

A blog post I didn't want to write: predatory publishing justthesocialfacts.blogspot.com/2025/02/late-a…

My concluding post on the "vibe shift": justthesocialfacts.blogspot.com/2025/02/vibe-s…

Two new posts on whether there has been a "vibe shift" compared to the beginning of the first Trump administration: justthesocialfacts.blogspot.com/2025/01/vibe-s… and justthesocialfacts.blogspot.com/2025/02/vibe-s…

New blog post: are other countries treating us fairly or taking advantage of us? Opinion differences by party and education justthesocialfacts.blogspot.com/2025/01/educat…

New blog post: partisanship and belief in conspiracy theories--is there a "crank realignment"? justthesocialfacts.blogspot.com/2025/01/a-hypo…