New Study Finds More Americans May Be Gay — and Anti-Gay — and Fear Saying So
A new study may call into question what Americans have been recently told about how many gay people exist and how many people are anti-gay — and the numbers may be larger than thought — merely because many Americans fear telling the truth regarding social desirability issues.
“We find substantial under-reporting of LGBT identity and behaviors as well as underreporting of anti-gay sentiment …even under anonymous and very private conditions,” a team of researchers from Ohio State and Boston Universities wrote in a working paper just published by the National Bureau of Economic Research, according to Rich Morin at the Pew Research Center.
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