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Gay Peepees, Ctd

By The Daily Dish
Dec 14 2006, 6:34 AM ET

A well-endowed nerd writes:

Of course I am pleased by this result but the statistical part of my brain is more skeptical. One concern is that the sample sizes for homosexuals and heterosexuals are quite different. If the distributions are positively skewed (fewer observations on the positive end of the distribution, sigh) then it's possible that the higher mean in the smaller sample is an artifact of the distribution. It would be nice to know if this result holds when equating for sample size, or when calculating medians. I didn't see any note of this in the manuscript. Can your readers help?



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