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Do you object to gay couples adopting?

Would you allow gay people to adopt?

  • Yes

    Votes: 60 59.4%
  • No

    Votes: 41 40.6%

  • Total voters
    101
Again, the survey compared gay households with all households. Statistics allows us to extrapolate that into gay singles v all singles.

No, it only compared coupled households.

Nationwide, 594,000
same-sex unmarried-partner households
represented 1 percent of all
coupled households.

http://www.census.gov/prod/2003pubs/censr-5.pdf

Page three, middle column, second paragraph.

CC already pointed out they didn't ask the sexuality of single households.

Please stop dancing.
 
Which is exactly what I stated previously. Again, simple statistics allows us to extrapolate this data into the remainder of society. *shrug*

No, you can't assume anything.
 
No, you can't assume anything.
You need to let the field of statistics know that they can't practice anymore.
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Are you suggesting that the US Census wasn't objective?

No, I am suggesting that you aren't objective. The Census bureau didn't make the assumption that you want to.
 
1. You are asking me to prove a negative, which is illogical.

Your entire argument is illogical, so this would be consistent for you.

2. The long form US Census study counts people who are in a gay household, then compares this to the total cohabitation households in the US. This survey represents a data set that it in the range of 100 times larger than most studies, and comes up with the 1% figure.

1) Show where on the census form one is asked to identify one's sexual orientation. Asking about cohabitation does not count.

2) Re-read what I posted about the census form and gays who do not cohabitate. These people were not counted in adding to the percentage of gays. Since only 25%-40% of gays cohabitate, there would be, approximately 3%-7% of gays in the US population.

Please provide evidence of you 1%. Your census evidence has been thoroughly debunked.
 
Again, the survey compared gay households with all households. Statistics allows us to extrapolate that into gay singles v all singles.

No, the survey did not do that. It compared gays who COHABITATE with all households who COHABITATE. This is the point you are missing. Gays who did not cohabitate were not included because there was no sexual orientation question.
 
Which is exactly what I stated previously. Again, simple statistics allows us to extrapolate this data into the remainder of society. *shrug*

Let me explain it to you once more. The survey only considered sexual orientation when it came to cohabitation. No sexual orientation question was asked, therefore, one cannot extrapolate the information of the percentage of homosexuals, unless one knows the percentage of homosexuals that cohabitate. 1% of the population are homosexuals who cohabitate. only 25%-40% of homosexuals live in cohabitation households. Therefore, it can be extrapolated that there are 3-6 times more homosexuals who live in single households. From this, statistically, one can conclude that 3%-7% of the population is gay.

You seem to not have a basic understanding of statistics. I hope this clears things up for you.
 
Your entire argument is illogical, so this would be consistent for you [1].

[2] Show where on the census form one is asked to identify one's sexual orientation. Asking about cohabitation does not count.

[3] Re-read what I posted about the census form and gays who do not cohabitate. These people were not counted in adding to the percentage of gays. Since only 25%-40% of gays cohabitate, there would be, approximately 3%-7% of gays in the US population.

Please provide evidence of you 1%. Your census evidence has been thoroughly debunked.

1. The Southern Man scores and ad-hom from Captain "Courtesy". Along with the “’wife beater’ comment (post 233), the score now rests at SM2, CC0.
2. Posts 220 and 224, which wasn’t “debunked” in 231, since you didn’t address it there or otherwise.
3. Post 248 item 2.
 
1. The Southern Man scores and ad-hom from Captain "Courtesy". Along with the “’wife beater’ comment (post 233), the score now rests at SM2, CC0.

You have no idea what a "wife beater" is. It's a white shirt. Now you know. And the illogic of your argument is not an ad hom, since it is completely accurate.

And try to get the score accurate. At last count, it was CC 1,342 SM 0

2. Posts 220 and 224, which wasn’t “debunked” in 231, since you didn’t address it there or otherwise.
3. Post 248 item 2.

Your census comments have been debunked. It is not my fault if you do not understand simple statistics.
 
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