Interesting Stuff. People are asking me about Robert Spitzer’s reported desire to retract his study of 200 people who claimed to have experience change of their sexual orientation. It is unclear what people want me to say. When I first …
As Warren Throckmorton (amongst others) reports, Dr Robert Spitzer has asked to retract a paper he authored in 2003 examining the anecdotal reporting of almost 200 people who had been through an “ex-gay” programme. Knowing this article was coming, I …
I need your help! I want to run a project around the selection of a new Archbishop of Canterbury. I would like to, as an experiment in crowd decision making, set-up a prediction exchange market on the appointment of Rowan’s successor. The problem …
You knew that eventually we were going to come back to debunking some of the poor science claimed as “statistics” in the debate over homosexuality didn’t you? Here goes… There is a report up on LifeSite News that claims that …
The Church of England’s Research and Statistics Department (OK, technically the Archbishops’ Council’s Research and Statistics Department) has released figures for the past decade or so’s attendances at Cathedrals. The headline figures are encouraging, showing a growth in attendance of …
Go and read Lisa Nolland’s latest piece on Anglican Mainstream. It’s informative, it handles the paper being reported fairly, it cites correctly. There is a rather modified account given of the research above in Kimberly Balsam and Theodore Beauchaine, Esther …
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