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Tuesday, October 26, 2004
File this under 'not surprising'
When the government issues a terror warning, the president's approval rating increases an average of nearly three points, a Cornell University sociologist says.William Kates, "Study: Terror Warnings Up Approval Ratings", AP, October 26, 2004
"The social theories predict it, and anecdotally we know it to be true. Now we have statistical science to confirm it," said Robb Willer, assistant director of Cornell's Sociology and Small Groups Laboratory.
On average, a terror warning prompted a 2.75 point increase in President George Bush's approval rating the following week, said Willer, who published his study in Current Research in Social Psychology, a peer-reviewed online journal.
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