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→Political Questions Resolved by the Games: Canada legalized same-sex marriage in 2005. We should therefore use the 2004 data.
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|Will countries that have implemented same-sex marriage underperform? (See below for a more lengthy explanation)
|Will countries that have implemented same-sex marriage underperform? (See below for a more lengthy explanation)
|The total number of medals decreased by 15%: a decline of 11 out of 73.<ref>South Africa is excluded from this analysis for several reasons: it did not change its Marriage Act to include same-sex marriage, it has relatively few same-sex civil unions, and its medal total in average medal total in the Olympics prior to 2008 was almost identical to its medal total in 2012.</ref>
|The total number of medals decreased by 7.5%: a decline of 5 out of 67.<ref>South Africa is excluded from this analysis for several reasons: it did not change its Marriage Act to include same-sex marriage, it has relatively few same-sex civil unions, and its medal total in average medal total in the Olympics prior to 2008 was almost identical to its medal total in 2012.</ref>
: Belgium - 5 in 2000, 3 in 2012
: Belgium - 5 in 2000, 3 in 2012
: Canada - 18 in 2008, 18 in 2012
: Canada - 12 in 2004, 18 in 2012
: Netherlands - 25 in 2000, 20 in 2012
: Netherlands - 25 in 2000, 20 in 2012
: Norway - 6 in 2004, 4 in 2012
: Norway - 6 in 2004, 4 in 2012
: Spain - 19 in 2004, 17 in 2012
: Spain - 19 in 2004, 17 in 2012
: Total - 73 expected, 62 actual - '''''decline by 15%'''''
: Total - 67 expected, 62 actual - '''''decline by 7.5%'''''
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