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The older I get, the more some of parts of the liberal credo niggle at me as short-sighted, ultra-ist, or self-defeating--me, the college-educated liberal white male raised as from, if not actually in, the Northeast. And if there's any part that has bothered me more than another, it's the way that a portion of feminist community rails against men the same way that ultraconservatives like Rush Limbaugh rail against feminists. And nothing is a greater example of this than the line, frequently trotted out, that men (men, note you, not "conservatives," or even "conservative men" men) are the root of the anti-abortion movement. Men want to make abortion illegal. Since I'm a men, and I'm in favour (as Presidents Clinton and Obama--both men--have put it) of abortions remaining safe, legal, and rare, I doubt the veracity of this broad brush and rankle when it is put to use in tarring all males.
So imagine my pleasure and surprise when, researching the issue (in response to comments posted on the article I linked to earlier in The Other Place), I found this 2010 survey from Gallup. What it shows is that, in surveys from 1975 to 2009, men responded that abortion should be legal under some or all circumstances at a consistently higher rate than did women, And that over that same period, women consistently responded that abortion should be illegal at a higher rate than men did. And that currently they do so at a higher rate (21%) than at any time since 1975, and that the gap between women so responding and men doing so (16%) is also higher than ever.
Something about motes and beams...
So imagine my pleasure and surprise when, researching the issue (in response to comments posted on the article I linked to earlier in The Other Place), I found this 2010 survey from Gallup. What it shows is that, in surveys from 1975 to 2009, men responded that abortion should be legal under some or all circumstances at a consistently higher rate than did women, And that over that same period, women consistently responded that abortion should be illegal at a higher rate than men did. And that currently they do so at a higher rate (21%) than at any time since 1975, and that the gap between women so responding and men doing so (16%) is also higher than ever.
Something about motes and beams...
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Sep. 30th, 2010 01:57 pmWith thanks to ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
wcg, a link to a quiz based on the Pew Center poll questions on religion.
Without giving away anything in case people want to try their hand, I have to say that I think 15 questions are too few to really get a grasp of what people know about so many different religions. The original survey (a PDF of which can be found here) asked a several more, some substantive and some questions to help characterise response categories on other factors. But, still, the number of questions and the way some of them are only tangentially related to religion make me feel this is a weak poll. For instance, how much does it tell one about the public's knowledge about a religion to know whether it is predominant in a given country or not? TO me that indicates something about how much the respondent knows about the *country*, but not much about what he or she knows of the religion in question.
That said, I am enough of a social science geek to wish I had access to the data files and time to play with them...
wcg, a link to a quiz based on the Pew Center poll questions on religion.Without giving away anything in case people want to try their hand, I have to say that I think 15 questions are too few to really get a grasp of what people know about so many different religions. The original survey (a PDF of which can be found here) asked a several more, some substantive and some questions to help characterise response categories on other factors. But, still, the number of questions and the way some of them are only tangentially related to religion make me feel this is a weak poll. For instance, how much does it tell one about the public's knowledge about a religion to know whether it is predominant in a given country or not? TO me that indicates something about how much the respondent knows about the *country*, but not much about what he or she knows of the religion in question.
That said, I am enough of a social science geek to wish I had access to the data files and time to play with them...
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May. 17th, 2010 03:28 pmMy feet are getting itchy, so I'm thinking about vacations. Thus, ineluctably, a poll:
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Sep. 23rd, 2009 04:37 pmSo, I'm curious about people's banking habits. Some people set up automatic payments from their bank account (like having a utility automatically deduct its bill from their checking/current account, or having their bank automatically pay a set amount monthly to their credit card balance). I heard of this from friends in the UK long before I ever heard of it here, so I've always thought of it as a UK thing. But I discovered in asking around at work that quite a few of my colleagues here do it too. So, a poll!
[Poll #1461690]
I realise that many of my friends are *from* one country but living in the other (in some cases, that's how we became friends!), but I'm mostly interested in what people's preferences are by nationality and upbringing, not by where you happen to be at the moment.
[Poll #1461690]
I realise that many of my friends are *from* one country but living in the other (in some cases, that's how we became friends!), but I'm mostly interested in what people's preferences are by nationality and upbringing, not by where you happen to be at the moment.
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Sep. 12th, 2008 10:14 amAfter seeing two of the clips that ABC is circulating of its interview(s) with Gov Palin.
[Poll #1258459]
[Poll #1258459]
