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	<title>Sociological improvisations</title>
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		<title>Does science have a PR problem? (miscellaneous notes)</title>
		<link>http://sociological-improvisations.farwestresearch.com/?p=20</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 03 Nov 2025 16:34:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dominic Lusinchi</dc:creator>
		
	<category>Sociology of Science</category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Communication problems?]]></description>
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		<title>Notes on Science &#038; the Second Trump Regime</title>
		<link>http://sociological-improvisations.farwestresearch.com/?p=19</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Oct 2025 04:40:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dominic Lusinchi</dc:creator>
		
	<category>Sociology of Science</category>
		<guid>http://sociological-improvisations.farwestresearch.com/?p=19</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[the Trump regime is jeopardizing America's preeminence in matters scientific and scholarly]]></description>
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		<title>Spin, unspun, respin&#8230;What is &#8220;spin&#8221;?</title>
		<link>http://sociological-improvisations.farwestresearch.com/?p=18</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 24 Aug 2025 01:31:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dominic Lusinchi</dc:creator>
		
	<category>General</category>
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		<description><![CDATA[	The following is a discussion of a paper, &#8220;The All-Spin Zone,&#8221; by Stanley E. Fish (b. 1938), part of a collection published under the title&#160;Think Again: Contrarian Reflections on Life, Culture, Politics, Religion, Law, and Education&#160;(Princeton University Press, 2015, pp. 138-141). Fish is an academic and &#8220;public intellectual,&#8221; specializing in literary theory, constitutional law, First [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Further reflections on the Thomas Theorem</title>
		<link>http://sociological-improvisations.farwestresearch.com/?p=14</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Jan 2023 02:33:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dominic Lusinchi</dc:creator>
		
	<category>General</category>
		<guid>http://sociological-improvisations.farwestresearch.com/?p=14</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[	Last Sunday (01/08/2023), we witnessed, yet again, a tragic illustration of the Thomas Theorem (see my previous post: January 6 and the Thomas Theorem)&#8211;this time in Brazil’s capital Brasilia. Sadly, this had all the looks of what occurred in Washington D.C. on January 6, 2021: a crowd of people who believe that the presidential contest [...]]]></description>
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		<title>January 6 and the Thomas Theorem</title>
		<link>http://sociological-improvisations.farwestresearch.com/?p=13</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 07 Jan 2023 07:06:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dominic Lusinchi</dc:creator>
		
	<category>General</category>
		<guid>http://sociological-improvisations.farwestresearch.com/?p=13</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[	Readers who have taken an introductory course in sociology (i.e., Sociology 101) may have been introduced to what has been called the Thomas Theorem, in honor of its originator(s) William I. Thomas (and Dorothy S. Thomas). It has been described as “what is probably the single most consequential sentence ever put in print by an [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Science Outraged by Political Interference</title>
		<link>http://sociological-improvisations.farwestresearch.com/?p=12</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Oct 2020 23:32:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dominic Lusinchi</dc:creator>
		
	<category>Sociology of Science</category>
		<guid>http://sociological-improvisations.farwestresearch.com/?p=12</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[	For two weeks in a row, in the month of September 2020, voices from the scientific community have been heard in a space from which it traditionally shies away: politics. First, it was Scientific American doing something unprecedented: endorsing a candidate for the presidency (Biden). Then, the following week (September 24, 2020), we witnessed another [...]]]></description>
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		<title>An Unprecedented Action</title>
		<link>http://sociological-improvisations.farwestresearch.com/?p=11</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Oct 2020 23:53:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dominic Lusinchi</dc:creator>
		
	<category>Sociology of Science</category>
		<guid>http://sociological-improvisations.farwestresearch.com/?p=11</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[	For the first time in its 175-year history, Scientific American, in its October issue, has endorsed a candidate for the presidency. What led a venerable institution like Scientific American to enter the political fray?
	
	&#160;&#160; For the past two centuries, science has carved itself the role as the sole arbiter of what is and what is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Are online polls “junk science”?</title>
		<link>http://sociological-improvisations.farwestresearch.com/?p=4</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 06 Dec 2017 03:52:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dominic Lusinchi</dc:creator>
		
	<category>Polling &#038; Survey Research</category>
		<guid>http://sociological-improvisations.farwestresearch.com/?p=4</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[	Introduction
	On September 18, 2017, the results of a national poll of American college undergraduates were published on the website of the Brookings Institution.&#160; The results were commented by the researcher who initiated the study, John Villasenor—a professor of electrical engineering at the University of California, Los Angeles, and a nonresident senior fellow at Brookings.&#160; The [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Is statistics&#8217; p-value a thing of the past?</title>
		<link>http://sociological-improvisations.farwestresearch.com/?p=3</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Nov 2016 05:28:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dominic Lusinchi</dc:creator>
		
	<category>Statistics and Data Analysis</category>
		<guid>http://sociological-improvisations.farwestresearch.com/?p=3</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[a cornerstone in the production of scientific knowledge is being challenged]]></description>
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		<title>Using online panels for election polls</title>
		<link>http://sociological-improvisations.farwestresearch.com/?p=2</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Mar 2016 16:32:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dominic Lusinchi</dc:creator>
		
	<category>Polling &#038; Survey Research</category>
		<guid>http://sociological-improvisations.farwestresearch.com/?p=2</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Tempest in a Teapot? On the legitimacy of opt-in online panels for election polling purposes]]></description>
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