Gay Marriage - The Stats, Dude (& Dude-ettes)

We asked over 130 people the following two questions:

1. Do you support gay marriage? Overwhelmingly, people said "yes," they support gay marriage (54%).

 

2. Do you have any friends or family who are gay?  Again, most people said that they had friends or family who were gay (62%).

We also asked everyone their age to see if young people and older people answered differently.  Here's what we learned.

With the first question, "do you support gay marriage?," support for gay marriage was basically the same for each group (look at the blue part of the bars).

With the second question, "do you have any friends or family members who are gay?," more teenagers (13-19 years old) answered "yes" than any other age group (look at the blue part of the bars).

- marvin & angel

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Comments

[Hedda]

Hi Jeff, Marvin, and Angel:

I enjoyed your Immediate Reaction blog on gay marriage. I was surprised to see that over 50% of people surveys in each age range where in favor of gay marriage.

Why do you all think that people aged 20-34 seem to be the most in favor of gay marriage? Only 20 people reported knowing someone gay, but 26 are in favor of gay marriage. With all the other age groups knowing someone that was gay didn’t necessarily mean the age group was more in favor of gay marriage.