Statistics – Page 4 – An Exercise in the Fundamentals of Orthodoxy

Church Growth – Adult Baptisms

Peter Ould Sep 22, 2012 Tagged with Adult Baptism, Attendance Figures, Baptisms, Blackburn, Celebrated Cases, Chichester, Church of England, Cols, Ely, Evangelism, Exeter, Gloucester, Leeds, London Diocese, Number Rows, Ripon, Sheffield, Significance Level, T Test, Truro, Type String

Two months ago I wroteÂ a blog pieceÂ looking at Average Sunday Attendance figures in the Church of …

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Church of England, Statistics

Church Decline in England?

Peter Ould Jul 27, 2012 Tagged with Archbishops Council, Asa, Attendance Figure, Blackburn, Church Decline, Church of England, Cols, Dioceses, Negative Coefficient, Number Rows, Peterborough, Ripon, Simple Linear Regression, Sodor, Sodor And Man, Southwell, Spreadsheet, Statistics Department, Truro, Type String, Wakefield

I wanted to add some form of contribution to recent debate over whether there is decline …

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Gay Parenting, Sexuality, Statistics

Daniel Potter on Gay Parenting

Peter Ould Jul 18, 2012 Tagged with Academic Gain, Assessment Scores, Biological Parents, Daniel Potter, Dynamic Model, Early Childhood Longitudinal Study, Early Years Education, Educational Attainment, First Models, Gay Parenting, Growth Curve, Hierarchical Linear Modeling, Input Factors, Kindergarten Entry, Marriage And Family, Math Assessment, Nontraditional Families, Parent Households, Same Sex Parents, Sex Parent

You wait ages for a study on gay parenting to come and then loads appear round …

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Sexual Identity, Sexuality, Statistics

Sexual Identity Fluidity – The Evidence

Peter Ould Jul 6, 2012 Tagged with Amp, Clarity, Cohort Study, Confirmation Bias, Dp, Eibach, Fluidity, Heterosexual, Homosexual Attraction, Longitudinal Study, Lt 1, Marital Status, Noticeable Change, Notions, Participants, People, Population One, Religious Nature, Scorn, Sex Attractions, Sexual Behaviour, Sexual Identity, Transition Matrix

Although many pour scorn on notions that people’s sexual identity can change, research like Jones and …

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Church of England, Statistics, Women Bishops

What’s Going to Happen at Synod over Women Bishops?

Peter Ould Jul 2, 2012 Tagged with Bishops, Blog, Church of England, Church Of England Priest, Crowd, Exercise, Full Time, General Election, Icm, Job, New Poll, Poll Id, Prizes, Pun, Statistician, Synod, Variations, Women Vote

One of the joys of being a Church of England Priest who works full-time as a …

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Gay Parenting, Statistics

The Regenerus “Gay Parenting” Study

Peter Ould Jun 22, 2012 Tagged with Advantage, Advocates, Age Of Majority, Biological Family, Bottom Line, Data Structures, Debate, Family Structures, Gay Parenting, Habit, Killer Blow, Maturity, Parents, Same Sex Relationship, Selection Bias, Statistician, Survey, Young Adults

I’m starting to get into the habit of leaving big blogging subjects alone for a week …

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PostGay, Statistics

Mark Yarhouse on the Spitzer Retraction

Peter Ould Apr 14, 2012 Tagged with American Psychiatric Association, Annual Meeting, Arana, Blogosphere, Blogs, Desire, Experience Change, Formal Sense, Gross Errors, Interesting People, Interesting Stuff, Legacy, Lost, Outset, Retraction, Robert Spitzer, Sexual Orientation, Warrants

Interesting Stuff. PeopleÂ are asking me about Robert Spitzerâ€™s reported desire to retract his study of …

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ExGay Study, Statistics

Spitzer Retracts his 2001 Paper – Kind Of…

Peter Ould Apr 11, 2012 Tagged with Anecdotes, Archives Of Sexual Behavior, Conclusions, Decade, Dr Robert, Obligation, People, Reply, Retraction, Retrospect, Robert Spitzer, Second Thoughts, Study Participants, Survey, Warren Throckmorton, Zucker

As Warren Throckmorton (amongst others) reports, Dr Robert Spitzer has asked to retract a paper he …

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Archbishop of Canterbury, Statistics

Calling all Geeks…

Peter Ould Apr 9, 2012 Tagged with Academic Exercise, Archbishop Of Canterbury, Based Software, Betting Exchange, Cnc, Commercial Software, Current Market, Derivatives, Exchange Market, Futures, Geeks, Information Markets, Market Prediction, Probability, Software Solution, Source Prediction, Speculation, Speculative Markets, Stock Market Software, Undue Pressure, Virtual Markets

I need your help! I want to run a project around the selection of a new …

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Sexuality, Statistics

Stats Watch! 4

Peter Ould Apr 7, 2012 Tagged with Aids, Average Age Of Death, Biased Sample, Cause Of Death, Conclusions, Debunking, Denmark, Discrimination, Drs, Gay Mental Health, Health Risk, Homosexuals, Kirk Cameron, Mental Health Issues, Mental Health Problems, Obituaries, Paul Cameron, Random Sample, Tolerance, Upper 70s

You knew that eventually we were going to come back to debunking some of the poor …

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