Dataset – An Exercise in the Fundamentals of Orthodoxy

Understanding Society – Phase One

By Peter Ould Posted on February 28, 2011 Posted in Marriage, Statistics, UK Politics, Understanding Society 4 Comments Tagged with Academic Criteria, Biological Parent, Biological Parents, Biomedical Data, British Households, Dataset, Economic And Social Research Council, Esrc, Financial Circumstances, First Wave, Interdisciplinary Focus, Life Satisfaction, Longitudinal Study, New Ground, Personal Relationships, Phase One, Previous Research, Social Histories, Society Survey, Understanding Society

The first results from the ongoing Understanding Society survey have been released and there are some interesting stats as regards parenting and raising children. Understanding Society is a longitudinal study tracking 100,000 individuals in 40,000 British households. The survey examines …

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Follow Up on the Family Background / Lesbianism Study

By Peter Ould Posted on May 29, 2010 Posted in Identity, Sexuality, Statistics 33 Comments Tagged with 12 Months, Chi Square, Cohabiting, Conservative Commentators, Dataset, Disparity, Email, Excerpts, Family Background, Family Of Origin, Frc Research, Independent Variables, Intact Family, Involving Family, Percentages, Respondent, Sex Activity, Sex Behaviour, Statistical Significance, T Test

As I mentioned below, I wanted to follow up the FRC research to see whether the research was statistically valid. Unfortunately the publicly available dataset does not include within it the same-sex activity data, so I decided to email Professor …

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