Article: Abusing Statistics about Homosexuality

[Mick]

You can view the page at http://metabunk.org/content/141-Abus...-Homosexuality

[MikeC]

Good find! I'll be sure to educate anyone who tries to slip ths one into anything I run across.

[Ross Marsden]

Good, thanks.
Not to derail... I find it is fairly common for people to quote from some report to support their case when the substance of the report does not support them at all.

[Mick]

That's not derailing, that's going meta.

The interesting thing here is that they combine two reports, taking unconnected figures from both to creat a new reality. It's not just that they misinterpreted one report, they invented something entirely new.

I think though, to your point, what they do is take a very small part of a report out of context, and assume nobody will actually read the full thing. Usually they don't even link to the original, and then it goes third hand, people pass it on trusting the original synthesizer.

[Jazzy]

It's one of the behaviors that make me misbehave. I cannot stand such a cynical misuse of information. It's exactly Orwell's Ministry of Truth. It's a violent attack on my most sensitive organ. Calm, calm...
I'm sorry I cannot suggest anything useful, beyond that which I would know anyone here would do.
Well done, and a great find.

[Stupid]

And when the proper statistics are realized, the conclusions are amazingly accurate (in this instance)....


From the comments section of Start Thinking Right blog article as referenced in the above metabunk article.

Thanks for that Michael. I understand what you are saying there. Now, I hesitate to bring this up, but for completeness, when you say:

" All that said, I googled “homosexuality” and “domestic violence” and came up with enough to tell me that you were correct in your attack of the table I used and the conclusions I drew from it. You are correct; homosexual couples are 100% more violent than heterosexual couples."

You should also note that’s about homosexual MEN, and that lesbians are 50% LESS violent than heterosexual couples.

All of which points to the notion that the violence does not stem from sexuality, but from maleness.

(my "bolding")

[Unregistered]

Statistics says that,there has been a steady increase in the number of unmarried couples, as heterosexual couples decide to forgo marriage and social conservatives have successfully kept same sex marriage from becoming legal. Though there are plenty of efforts to legislate morality and so forth, there are financial risks which married couples do not have to structurally deal with. There are also benefits that married partners cannot realize either. Whenever you take out an unsecured loan, diverse rules might apply.

[sandraF]

Statistics says that,there has been a steady increase in the number of unmarried couples, as heterosexual couples decide to forgo marriage and social conservatives have successfully kept same sex marriage from becoming legal. Though there are plenty of efforts to legislate morality and so forth, there are financial risks which married couples do not have to structurally deal with. There are also benefits that married partners cannot realize either.Whenever you take out an unsecured loan, diverse rules might apply.