I find it exasperating when it seems like obvious explanations for data are ignored in favor of supporting a person's agenda. I see this all the time, but here's my example from today:
In a article citing a study on whether mom or dad is the default parent, the author was frustrated by the fact that in this study 59% of the time schools defaulted to calling mom instead of dad (in heterosexual, two parent households) when the need arose. What they completely neglect to compensate for is that stay at home moms are about 4 times more prevalent than stay at home dads, and they make up about 25% of households. Call me crazy, but the stay at home parent SHOULD be the default parent called, right?
Compensating for the fact that 25% of moms stay home and 7% of dads stay home, if you split the remaining 68% evenly in half, you get that moms should be called 59% of the time, the EXACT amount found in the study! So to me, what this shows is that moms and dads actually are being called exactly evenly in situation where there is not a stay at home parent. But that doesn't support the agenda of the writer...