Comment: Rejoinder To Judd And Milburn
Philip E. Converse · American Sociological Review · 1980
Manuscripts reacting to the Belief Systems paper tackled by Judd and Milburn still cross my desk at the rate of better than a half-dozen a year. Only one in every three or four of these is published. However, whether published or unpublished, the verdict is certainly a mixed one, quite as these authors report; and my guess would be that if anything, disconfirmations are currently in the lead. In fact, I have seen so many disconfirmations in the past decade, and they form such repetitive patterns, that I consider myself something of an expert in the gambits necessary to produce disconfirmation. Invited to comment here, I thought it might be of some service to share these insights so that subsequent investigators can generate disconfirmations more surely and swiftly.