Conrad Hackett
Senior Demographer & Associate Director of Research at
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Ukraine Election: Volodymyr Zelensky, TV Comedian, Trounces President
Nytimes.com 12h 3 tweets
Volodymyr Zelensky, an actor best known for playing a president on television, decisively won the race, with nearly all votes officially counted.
Conrad Hackett TV star with no government or military experience elected president 34m
Gender gap widens in views of government’s role – and of Trump
Pew Research Center 11d 4 tweets
Gender differences in the U.S. about the size and scope of government have been evident for more than a decade, but they have widened in recent years.
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Conrad Hackett TRUMP APPROVAL GENDER GAP Men 47% Women 32% 11d
what if sociology does not really want to have a public impact? commentary on economics and sociology blogs
orgtheory.net 13d 13 tweets
A constant point of discussion in the social sciences is the relatively strong position of economics. That profession has more institutional power, higher salaries, and more public visibility than …
Share of U.S. adults using social media, including Facebook, is mostly unchanged since 2018
Pew Research Center 13d 12 tweets
The steady growth in adoption that social platforms have experienced in the U.S. over the past decade also appears to be slowing.
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Conrad Hackett BELIEVE IT OR NOT: Most US adults never use Twitter 13d
Views on Race in America 2019
Pew Research Center’s Social & Demographic Trends Project 14d 15 tweets
Most Americans (65%) – including majorities across racial and ethnic groups – say it has become more common for people to express racist or racially insensitive views since Trump was elected president.
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Conrad Hackett Is being white a disadvantage in America? 14% of white Americans say so. 13d
Is the U.S. a Democracy? A Social Studies Battle Turns on the Nation’s Values
Nytimes.com 16d 13 tweets
Michigan spent five years debating how to teach American history. One of the biggest questions was how to describe the nation’s government.
Atheists forced underground as religious hard-liners dominate Iraq
NBC News 17d 9 tweets
“A wave of atheism will overwhelm Iraq because of the wrong practices of Islamic parties,” one Muslim scholar said.
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Openness to foreigners essential to U.S. identity, say most Americans
Pew Research Center 195d 12 tweets
Just 26% say “if America is too open to people from all over the world, we risk losing our identity as a nation.”
How to create a better research poster in less time (including templates)
YouTube 29d 21 tweets
They Had It Coming
Caitlin Flanagan - The Atlantic 19d 95 tweets
The parents indicted in the college-admissions scandal were responding to a changing America, with rage at being robbed of what they believed was rightfully theirs.
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Amazon.com: An Economist Walks into a Brothel: And Other Unexpected Places to Understand Risk eBook: Allison Schrager: Kindle Store
Amazon.com 124d 2 tweets
An Economist Walks into a Brothel: And Other Unexpected Places to Understand Risk - Kindle edition by Allison Schrager. Download it once and read it on your Kindle device, PC, phones or tablets. Use features like bookmarks, note taking and...
The countries with the 10 largest Christian populations and the 10 largest Muslim populations
Pew Research Center 21d 10 tweets
The global Muslim population is more concentrated in Islam’s main population centers than the global Christian population is for Christianity.
Conrad Hackett Countries with the most Muslims (2015) 1 Indonesia 2 India 3 Pakistan 4 Bangladesh 5 Nigeria 6 Egypt 7 Iran 8 Turkey 9 Algeria 10 Iraq 21d
Majority Says Trump Has Done ‘Too Little’ to Distance Himself From White Nationalists
Pew Research Center for the People and the Press 25d 8 tweets
The public’s views of Donald Trump have changed little over the course of his presidency – and this is the case for opinions about whether Trump has done
For Prominent Chinese Church Leader, Detention Is a Test of Faith
Nytimes.com 29d 4 tweets
Wang Yi has been held incommunicado since December, part of a government crackdown on independent religious groups.
Views of demographic changes in America
Pew Research Center’s Social & Demographic Trends Project 31d 2 tweets
As the U.S. population becomes more racially and ethnically diverse, Americans have mixed views about how the country might change when blacks, Hispanics,
Conrad Hackett NEW REPORT: 37% of Republicans say it will be bad for a majority of the US population to be made up of racial minorities. 31d
Scientists rise up against statistical significance
Nature.com 33d 197 tweets
Valentin Amrhein, Sander Greenland, Blake McShane and more than 800 signatories call for an end to hyped claims and the dismissal of possibly crucial effects.
Conrad Hackett Scientists rise up against statistical significance 33d
White nationalism, born in the USA, is now a global terror threat
The Conversation 33d 1 tweets
The recent massacre at a New Zealand mosque is a traceable, direct outgrowth of an American white nationalist movement that insists immigrants and people of color are a threat to 'white civilization.'
Countries have different priorities when they review each other’s human rights records
Pew Research Center 33d 3 tweets
Every UN member state faces a periodic review of its human rights record. But the issues raised in these reviews can vary depending on which countries are doing the reviewing.
Results of the 2018 General Social Survey Now Available to the Public | NORC.org
norc 34d 2 tweets
Data from the 2018 General Social Survey (GSS) are now live at gss.norc.org. The GSS is a biennial, nationally representative survey that has been conducted by NORC at the University of Chicago since 1972 to monitor societal change and study the...
Conrad Hackett The 2018 General Social Survey dataset is now available. Fire up your statistical engines! #GSS 34d
The share of women in legislatures around the world is growing, but they are still underrepresented
Pew Research Center 35d 3 tweets
No world region has reached gender parity in the share of legislative seats held by women. Only three nations individually have reached or surpassed parity.
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Conrad Hackett Women in national legislative bodies, 2019 Rwanda 56% Cuba 53% Bolivia 52% Mexico 48% South Africa 42% France 37% Italy 35% UK 29% Canada 32% China 25% US 24% Saudi Arabia 20% Turkey 17% India 12% Nigeria 6% 34d