{"id":3508,"date":"2012-06-11T21:42:02","date_gmt":"2012-06-12T01:42:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/unequallyyoked\/?p=3508"},"modified":"2013-01-16T01:14:57","modified_gmt":"2013-01-16T06:14:57","slug":"data-data-data-blogathon-1212","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/unequallyyoked\/2012\/06\/data-data-data-blogathon-1212.html","title":{"rendered":"Data! Data! Data! [Blogathon 12\/12]"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

This post is number twelve of twelve for the Secular Student Alliance Blogathon. \u00a0I\u2019m responding to comments in the \u201cGo Ahead, Tell Me What\u2019s Wrong with Homosexuality<\/a>\u201d thread all day. \u00a0You can read an explanation of the Blogathon and a pitch for donations (even if you\u2019re religious) here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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At 9am this morning, we kicked of this blogathon on homosexuality with methodological questions about statistics and social science<\/a>, and that\u2019s how we\u2019re going to fracking end it!<\/p>\n

William Saletan is covering a new study for Slate<\/a> on how children from a variety of family structures turn out. \u00a0The researchers found that children had the best<\/em> outcome when raised by a husband and wife who never divorced. \u00a0Some previous studies rated gay relationships as more evenly matched, but the old studies suffered from a big methodology problem: the way they selected queer families upped the odds that they only pulled in successful ones. \u00a0The new study tracks children and then asks them about their parents once they\u2019re part of the sample set.<\/p>\n

Ross Douthat<\/a> has a good summary of the problem with the new study, though:<\/p>\n

Because it focuses on adult outcomes, Regnerus\u2019s study is necessarily a look backward. No matter where they lived or how they were treated by their peers, many of his subjects came of age when homosexuality was still marginalized and despised and gay marriage barely on the radar screen. The majority were born to male-female couples in which one partner later came out as gay (adding an extra layer of complexity and heartbreak), rather than being planned via adoption, sperm donation or in vitro fertilization. Almost none were raised in a single same-sex household for their entire childhood. Today the models of gay parenting have presumably shifted, the stability of gay households has presumably increased, and the outcomes for children may be shifting as well.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I haven\u2019t gotten to look at the methodology in detail (even to nail down which outcomes they tracked) but from the coverage I\u2019ve seen, I\u2019d be interested in seeing this repeated every five years for the next few decades. \u00a0Until then, I\u2019m not sure how well it predicts the outcomes of children in same-sex married households now<\/em>.<\/p>\n

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And that ends my leg of the Blogathon. \u00a0I gladly pass the baton to the other SSAweek writers<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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