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College students are not as intelligent
Posted by Razib Khan on September 25, 2009 I made a comment earlier that college students, and by inference college graduates, are not as intelligent as they used to be on average. I made that comment based on what I’d seen in the General Social Survey. What I had seen was a decline in average WORDSUM score over the years (WORDSUM being a…
Regional differences in opinion, attitude and values
Posted by Razib Khan on August 23, 2009 Update: Follow up post. This Michael Lind piece bemoaning liberal contempt for white Southerners made me want to look a bit deeper and compare interregional differences and similarities. I went into the General Social Survey and limited responses to whites only and compared by region. The regions in the GSS are those of the US…
Who supports the space program?
Posted by Razib Khan on July 21, 2009 I just listened to a radio segment on public sentiments toward the Apollo space program expenditures in hindsight. The polling had a small N, 3 people in Los Angeles on the street. But it got me wondering: who supports the space program? There is a variable in the GSS, NATSPAC, with a large sample size,…
Elite Republicans & Democrats vs. the masses
Posted by Razib Khan on July 8, 2009 Over at Secular Right I break down attitudes toward a host of issues as a function of class and party identification. It is interesting to see the issues where class matters more than party, and those where party matters more than class, and where one segment is an outlier. Below the fold are a few…
Religious people support torture
Posted by Razib Khan on April 30, 2009 John Schwenkler points me to Rod Dreher’s shock that religious people seem to support torture more than the non-religious: And get this: the more often you go to church, the more pro-torture you’re likely to be! What on earth are these Christians hearing at church?! Very sad indeed. John notes: There are plenty of data…
Who’s afraid of genetic testing?
Posted by Razib Khan on April 9, 2009 The GSS has a variable, GENEGOO2, with an N ~ 2,500, that asks: Some people say that genetic testing may cause trouble. Others think it is a wonderful medical advance. Based on what you know, do you think genetic testing will do more harm than good or more good than harm? Below the fold are…