• DOI:10.1287/MNSC.2016.2503
Corpus ID: 35207796

The Size of the Lgbt Population and the Magnitude of Anti-Gay Sentiment are Substantially Underestimated

@article{Coffman2017TheSO,
  title={The Size of the Lgbt Population and the Magnitude of Anti-Gay Sentiment are Substantially Underestimated},
  author={K. Coffman and L. Coffman and K. Ericson},
  journal={Labor: Demographics & Economics of the Family eJournal},
  year={2017}
}

K. Coffman, L. Coffman, K. Ericson

Published 2017

Psychology, Computer Science

Labor: Demographics & Economics of the Family eJournal

We demonstrate that widely used measures of antigay sentiment and the size of the lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) population are misestimated, likely substantially. In a series of online experiments using a large and diverse but nonrepresentative sample, we compare estimates from the standard methodology of asking sensitive questions to measures from a “veiled” methodology that precludes inference about an individual but provides population estimates. The veiled method increased… CONTINUE READING

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