Kathleen Weldon

oh, my

It’s an in-office day, so you know what that means: weird old polls stuff.
The folks who wrote this 1971 ORC survey were losing their minds over the public’s overestimation of profits: “Economic ignorance has profits in jeopardy”

The illustration is groovy though

I'm taking such pleasure in thinking about the blisters

I don’t think we’ve fully grappled with just how much of U.S. presidential history has been told thanks to scholars accessing records that _literally will not exist_ for this administration, and to a lesser extent Trump v1 and (I strongly suspect) Biden.

A wee spree

I think the implication is that there should be a commas after “as well”, which changes the meaning entirely.

Ooh, I'd love to hear more. My email is linked on the website: ropercenter.cornell.edu/staff/roper-...

Also, as a non-political-scientist, I think some of the most interesting things in the archive don't get used at all because they aren't about politics.

Well, that's never bad news! I'm just hoping we can expand the use and impact

I took my son to a University of Buffalo open house. It started - before any conversation about academics or student life - with a session about the importance of AI.
That was enough to turn him off the place.

I work at the Roper archive (which was the source of data for that project!). We get tons of use from political science people, but very little from historians, despite the clear value of the data from a historical perspective. So I'm trying to figure out how to address that

Plugs are fine!

I also wish they had started more of a trend - could the early collections from Great Britain, France, the Netherlands, Germany, Italy, Australia be improved with more sophisticated weighting? Someone should try!

I'm the archivist at the Roper Center, in fact. But the Berinsky-Schickler collection is so important, I welcome anyone bringing it up!

To be clear, you do not need to be a historian who focuses on public opinion! Just one who might be interested in, say, cross-national comparisons of makeup use or superstitions, how Brits felt about jazz, attitudes about youth in Norway, or maybe opinions about soccer in Brazil in the 60s?

Yes, I've been including places with general programs in environmental science or environmental biology that have concentrations in wildlife management or the like

Just not a program you find everywhere -I was an English major, it was easy!

Any #historians out there with any possible interest in public opinion from 1935 to now? I would be very grateful for anyone willing to chat about how to help historians discover materials in the polling archive. All topics: politics, policy, health, culture, religion #skystorians

We have a spreadsheet, missing a few columns, appreciate the recommendation

Thank you!

I lived in NYC for a couple years, and I enjoyed so many things, but I felt physically drained the whole time.

Uh. No. Spectrum, struggles with change. Looking for something in the Goldilocks range - not too big, not too small

I went to a small liberal arts school in a small town, but it had a vibrant campus culture. I would have been lost at a big school. It's so individual.

that's one part I've focused on - he's looking for something a bit focused (wildlife management/animal science) and some of the programs are in the tiniest places. Nothing in the town, few other majors to shift to if he changes his mind.

Thank you for that, it's good to know

Fair enough.

Really? Are you counting loans? I just don't want to saddle my kid with big loans. And NY in-state tuition is low.

Yes, I guess that's my point - why apply to private or out of state at all?
I went to a private school, but financially I cannot justify it for my kids (I'm in a very different spot than my parents, and schools cost more now). My junior is looking almost exclusively at public schools.

What is the rationale behind the in-state/out of state and public/private splits?

That seems like a good idea! Let’s do that!

Right? And raised her 3 children as well as her niece*, cooked, canned, made quilts, never stopped moving.

*Because, I swear to god, her brother in law dumped the kid in an orphanage after his wife/the girl's mother died. My grandparents had to find her there to take her home. She was 7.