Testing The Gaydar Of The Troops?

by Patrick Appel

Nate Silver knocks the Pentagon's DADT survey of the troops. In one section it asks service-members to speculate whether other troops are gay:

The survey (at least from what we've seen of it sofar) goes out of its way to avoid asking the troops about somethingwhich is arguably more relevant and which is certainly more measurable:their opinions about DADT. Atno point, for instance does it pose the simple question of whether ornot the solider thinks that DADT should be...