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Regardless of how objective the IFS is, the specific page you linked to is not high quality research. It uses data from a survey commissioned by the Mormon chu
by elil17 4y ago
Regardless of how objective the IFS is, the specific page you linked to is not high quality research.
It uses data from a survey commissioned by the Mormon church and does not account for any confounding factors.
- rayiner 4y agoThe study is conducted by the Center for the Study of Elections and Democracy at BYU, Deseret News, and Yougov.
- tptacek 4y agoYes, the "Mormon Church" thing here seems like a super cheap shot.
- elil17 4y agoDeseret News is a wholly owned subsidiary of the LDS church. BYU is part of the Church Education System, which is part of the LDS church, and the president of the church directly controls BYU via his chairmanship of the BYU board. Yougov is a surveys for hire company. So, yeah, it’s a survey run by the Mormon church. But, more importantly, the conclusions drawn from it by IFS are simply not academically rigorous.