Posted by:
OnceMore
(
)
Date: June 01, 2011 09:42AM
Just in case you miss this post on the other thread, I'm reposting it here (for reference, the other thread is
http://exmormon.org/phorum/read.php?2,205891 ):
bigred, you wrote: "There are numerous studies done on the subjects at hand, however, I do believe that the stats are skewed. They are not an uneducated bunch, they are very, very intelligent. They use studies done at BYU, by Catholic services, and numerous other orgs that seem reputable. The guides they have developed for delegates is vast. I have a copy of it."
Would you be willing to get your copy of the "vast" compilation of studies that are being handed out to U.N. delegates to someone like PZ Myers? If so, or if you want to discuss this, please send email to me: laststand [at] me [dot] com. PZ has the expertise to take down that house of cards.
Ditto to seekingpeace, who also used to work at the U.N.
The studies in that compilation are not science, but pseudoscience. "Very intelligent" people have hobbled their intelligence, have put their ability to discriminate between facts and confirmation bias aside. The "research" represented "rests exclusively on the misuse of statistics and on the most elementary social science sins—portraying correlations as though they were causes, ignoring mediating factors, and treating small, overlapping differences as gross and absolute...."
For example: Sharon Slater sites a “US study released in 2008” – which was actually a report authored by Benjamin Scafidi for the antigay think-tank The Institute for American Values – Slater said the “breakdown of the family” was costing American taxpayers “a staggering $112 billion every year.”
That's bogus. Let's reveal the stats and the research for what they are, tunnel vision at best, and lying at worst