Deseret 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 t

Deseret 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.