MATT BRIGGS: Researchers Claim Gays Who Face Prejudice Live Shorter Lives.

Next came the magic—I mean the trick. The “anti-gay” measure was averaged across people who lived in the GSS’s “primary sampling units” (PSUs), which are cities or—God help us—”‘life space[s]‘ where individuals live, work, and play.” Then that average was assigned to each “sexual minority” who lived in the PSU.

Now a critic might say averaging these questions across “life spaces” has nothing to do with the health of men who want to have sex with other men (and likewise for women), especially as (it will turn out) Hatz admits that HIV/AIDS might account for the results. That critic would be right. But that critic would not find a job in a university as a “researcher”.