[OrangeHoof]

Mr. Regenerus, meet the scientists who wrote The Bell Curve. I predict this study will either be ignored by the MSM or, if they can't ignore it, will be discredited by the gaystapo through innuendos and smears because it tells a politically unpopular truth.

While the numbers are startling, I always like to flip them and see what you think. If 23% of children from lesbian mothers have been sexually abused then 77% were not. If 10% of children with gay fathers have been sexually abused then 90% were not.

Such number-flipping makes the results less sensational than at first glance.

[xzins]

One of the problems with number-flipping is statistical correlation. If I flip Obama’s 61% disapproval rating I get a 39% approval, and that number gives a fair idea of the extent of Obama’s problem with voters. I can’t point out that 61% of Obama disapprovers have been personally injured by Obama compared with only 6% of Obama approvers who have not been, when in fact all voters have been injured by Obama.

However, with 10% of children with gay fathers having been inappropriately touched by a gay parent, I can then compare that with a population in which only 1% of children of non-gay fathers have been inappropriately touched by a parent. This demonstrates to me a huge problem.

[so_real]

Flipping statistics provides additional perspective, which is interesting. However, it is less valuable when the data points "have personality". If 23% of the children from lesbian mothers were abused to a degree allowing their psyche's to admit this in a study, does that really mean 77% were not abused at all? What portion of that 77% have still not come to terms with their abuse and are able to recognize and express it as such?

[BuckeyeTexan]

If 23% of children from lesbian mothers have been sexually abused then 77% were not. Such number-flipping makes the results less sensational than at first glance.

No, it doesn't. The study compared children of intact biological families to children of homosexuals.

Only 2% of children from married, heterosexual parents were sexually abused, where 98% were not. If you want to flip numbers, do it correctly.

98% of children from married, heterosexual parents were not sexually abused, but only 77% of children from lesbian mothers were not sexually abused. It's still just as shocking.