Posted on 07/23/2025 8:44:20 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
Using a new method they developed for analyzing social-science data, a pair of sociologists was “surprised” to discover that, no matter how they sliced the data, they could not refute a 2012 study finding that children of same-sex “parents” fare much worse than those of married heterosexual parents.
In March, Cambridge University Press published Multiverse Analysis, a book by Cornell University sociologists Cristobal Young and Erin Cumberworth. The publisher’s description:
There are many ways of conducting an analysis, but most studies show only a few carefully curated estimates. Applied research involves a complex array of analytical decisions, often leading to a “garden of forking paths” where each choice can lead to different results. By systematically exploring how alternative analytical choices affect the findings, Multiverse Analysis reveals the full range of estimates that the data can support and uncovers insights that single-path analyses often miss.
Young and Cumberworth reviewed a number of disputed studies and found that most failed to withstand multiverse analysis. The studies were riddled with biased assumptions that, conveniently, produced exactly the results the researchers wanted. For example, a study that purported to show that women’s political views shifted with their ovulation cycles was so rigged that it “presented the most extreme estimate available from the multiverse of possible results,” the sociologists found.
The big test, though, was whether the 2012 study by University of Texas sociology professor Mark Regnerus would hold up under multiverse analysis. That study of about 3,000 young adults, 248 of whom had same-sex parents, touched off a firestorm — not because its methodology was invalid but because it came to the “wrong” conclusion.
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Although often with smaller effects, every analysis confirmed the Regnerus study’s central finding that children turned out better with intact biological parents than with LGBT parents. Regnerus’s thesis, it turns out, was not only true in the analytic model in which he presented it: it was true in every analytic model possible.
Well duh.
Like we need scientific studies to tell us this. Mentally ill parents create mentally ill children. When at least one of the mentally ill parents is a step parent, things work out even worse.
Duh.
Many many things trouble me about our society.
Nothing worse than the haste shown by parents, judges, doctors to expose children to harm because it’s trendy.
Just give them to gay parents, take away their gender, expose them to gay sex lessons in kindergarten.
And all done with a viciousness towards any of us “Neanderthals” that dare question it.
No kidding.
Probably another USAID study that cost millions to tell us what we already knew. This is just going to put a knot in the LBGTQ+ panties, nothing else.
My thoughts exactly.
That’s correct, sadly.
Ping for later
All other arrangements may be workable but they are not optimal.
This is not a swipe at people who adopt or have step parents. This is just reality. The closer you can get to the best the better the outcome will be.
2 queers are better than nobody. Dykes too.
Kids can go to work on their problems as adults.
Incorrect DIM SHILL.
Kids can go to work on their problems as adults.
I strongly urge that you go work on yours. Perhaps some electroshock therapy might bring you back to reality.
The left is really taking a beating these days in their push to advance the LGBTQXYZ....... agenda.
Thank GOD that reality is finally coming to the forefront.
Could’ve saved time and money by just polling America.
No $hit Sherlock!
Some problems get baked in as children and are impossible to shake off as adults.
Mark Regnerus’ study was over a decade ago, when the incidences of child rearing to adulthood by same-sex/homosexual couples was relatively rare, sporadic and not easy to find pre-”marriage” redefinition.
It would be interesting to poll the children who have reached adulthood over the past decade since same-sex “mirage” was forced on this nation and a flurry of such “parenting” resulted. I’d suspect that the outcomes are even worse now. Of course, a lot of the children in question are DEAD from the sodomites who acquired them.
Tell that to the 6 children the Hart lesbians adopted.
Ooops! You can't. They're all dead, by the hand of the lesbians who abused them for years.
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