{"id":790,"date":"2015-04-27T12:11:32","date_gmt":"2015-04-27T19:11:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/messofpottage.com\/blog\/?p=790"},"modified":"2015-04-27T12:44:14","modified_gmt":"2015-04-27T19:44:14","slug":"pew-data-on-same-sex-marriage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/messofpottage.com\/blog\/2015\/04\/27\/pew-data-on-same-sex-marriage\/","title":{"rendered":"Pew Data on Same-Sex Marriage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Pew Center has released some interesting <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pewresearch.org\/fact-tank\/2015\/04\/27\/same-sex-marriage\/\">new data on public attitudes about Same-Sex Marriage<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>Polls and surveys are tricky for two reasons. The first is <em>methodology<\/em>: was the survey properly taken, did they get a representative sample, and so forth. The second is <em>suitability<\/em>: is a poll really the right tool for the job? Years ago, the <em>Harvard Lampoon<\/em> published a parody edition of <em>USA Today<\/em> featuring the headline: &#8220;Chromium Heaviest Metal: Poll Finds.&#8221; The poll might have found it, but chromium isn&#8217;t the heaviest metal.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, I was interested in this bit of the poll:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Among the groups most likely to favor same-sex marriage in 2014 were Millennials (67%), Democrats (64%) and people without any religious affiliation (77%).<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>(Some of my <a href=\"https:\/\/messofpottage.com\/blog\/category\/sexuality\/\">previous posts on this topic<\/a>.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Pew Center has released some interesting new data on public attitudes about Same-Sex Marriage. Polls and surveys are tricky for two reasons. The first is methodology: was the survey properly taken, did they get a representative sample, and so forth. The second is suitability: is a poll really the right tool for the job? &hellip; <span class=\"more-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/messofpottage.com\/blog\/2015\/04\/27\/pew-data-on-same-sex-marriage\/\">Continue reading &raquo;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[163,341,242,637,43,602,53,54,282],"class_list":["post-790","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-homosexuality","tag-marriage","tag-pew","tag-poll","tag-polls","tag-same-sex-marriage","tag-sexuality","tag-society","tag-survey"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/messofpottage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/790","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/messofpottage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/messofpottage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/messofpottage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/messofpottage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=790"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/messofpottage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/790\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":793,"href":"https:\/\/messofpottage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/790\/revisions\/793"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/messofpottage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=790"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/messofpottage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=790"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/messofpottage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=790"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}