Bradley Wright's Blog

As a family we were talking about what we'd like to do this summer, and the boys get to each pick a couple of things. Gus, my oldest, ch...

From an article in today's Hartford Courant MANCHESTER - A comedy club is a place to find a few laughs ... and God? So say the leaders ...

When I teach sociology methods, I talk about how people use statistics to highlight given causes. To show how this works, I have the student...

(Final post, #14, of a series. Series starts here ) In this series I have examined the sexual behavior of Christians. Namely, starting with...

Vince Gierer , a pastor at our church, and a good friend, was talking about fear in last Sunday's message. He used the following memorab...

Here's an essay by Danah Boyd, a Ph.D. student in communications about social network sites and young people. Her thesis is that: ...

Congratulations to my brother John, who recently set a personal best hang gliding by getting up to over 6,000 feet. Yikes, that's a long...

I have started reading The Alchemist, by Paulo Coelho, which was published in 1993. I have enjoyed the book, but I *loved* this passage fro...

What is it about us humans. We always, always stratify into the haves and have-nots... even at Disneyland. The other night, my oldest son Gu...

(Post 13 in a series) This doesn't get at what people do, but rather what is done to them. The data are, once again, from the NHSLS, and...

What do you think, is this the way it is? Source

As I have written before, I'm just not that good at managing money. I've always been good at making it, but somehow it all gets spen...

(Post 12 in a series) Another measure of sexual behavior is the frequency and duration of sex: How often and for how long. Here are more dat...

From Andrew Gellman's blog, here's an interesting graph on religion, income, and voting. (Thanks Corey for sending it to me!) Accord...

Conversation in the car last week, between my wife and six-year-old son. He announced that he no longer wanted his piggy bank but instead he...

(Post 11 in a series ) As a follow up to yesterday's post on orgasms, here are data from the NHSLS regarding self-reported measures of s...

(Post 10 in a series) So far in this series, I have focused on sexual behavior in the context of immorality. Now, I'm going to turn to o...

Recently my colleague David Weakliem ordered the 2007 American Sociological Association Guide to Graduate Departments. It's basically a ...

(Post 9 in a series) (I posted these data in January, but I thought that I would repost them here as part of this series on Christians sexua...

Ever wonder who will be in heaven, and, by extension, hell? Here's English comedian's Rowan Atkinson's very funny answer .