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Posted: Mon Jul 14, 2014 10:10 pm
by Malcolm
TheCatt wrote:Malcolm wrote:My base line is that 10% of the population, minimum, is such that you'd call them homosexual. Once you start factoring the entire homo<->hetero spectrum, I could see that number go up to 15% easy, and more than that if we focus exclusively on women. That's a significant minority and it all depends how you draw that spectrum up.
Bullshit.
1-2% tops.
I'll restate my numbers with respect to "people who will admit it" for argument's sake. However...
Studies from various nations, however, including the U.S., covering varying time periods and age groupings, have produced a consistent statistical range of 1.20–5.60% of the adult population.
Booyah. Maybe I'm colouring things with the people I've met, but 1 in 20 seems a very conservative estimate. Even that 5% is in the study's range, albeit at the high end.
I bet there's about one person not admitting it on the census for every one that is. So about 10% base line.
Posted: Mon Jul 14, 2014 10:25 pm
by TheCatt
<2%, bitch
According to the Williams Institute review conducted in April 2011, approximately 3.80 % of American adults identify themselves being in the LGBT community; wherein, (1.70%) identify as lesbian or gay, (1.80%) bisexual, and (0.30%) transgender, which corresponds to approximately 9 million adult[1] Americans as of the 2010 Census.[2]
Posted: Mon Jul 14, 2014 11:32 pm
by Malcolm
I'm still calling a substantial underreporting.
Posted: Tue Jul 15, 2014 6:31 am
by Vince
Malcolm wrote: Maybe I'm colouring things with the people I've met, but 1 in 20 seems a very conservative estimate. Even that 5% is in the study's range, albeit at the high end.
Maybe it's just the clubs you frequent?
Posted: Tue Jul 15, 2014 7:56 am
by TheCatt
Vince wrote:Malcolm wrote: Maybe I'm colouring things with the people I've met, but 1 in 20 seems a very conservative estimate. Even that 5% is in the study's range, albeit at the high end.
Maybe it's just the clubs you frequent?
Yeah. I've known a decent number of gay people in my life (not biblically), and it was generally due to clustering. Either friends of friends, or people places that gay people tended to go (particular clubs or such).
Posted: Tue Jul 15, 2014 9:53 am
by Vince
Very true. When I was getting sober, you'd think that 50% of the population was gay judging by the people in my therapist's office.
Posted: Tue Jul 15, 2014 10:27 am
by Malcolm
Vince wrote:Malcolm wrote: Maybe I'm colouring things with the people I've met, but 1 in 20 seems a very conservative estimate. Even that 5% is in the study's range, albeit at the high end.
Maybe it's just the clubs you frequent?
It's the people I knew that worked there, not went there.
Posted: Tue Jul 15, 2014 11:56 am
by Vince
Heh...
I guess only about 3% think they're gay, lesbian or bi.
Posted: Tue Jul 15, 2014 12:03 pm
by Malcolm
Hah. Looks like gays smoke, drink, and fuck more, and generally take better care of themselves.
Posted: Tue Jul 15, 2014 12:36 pm
by GORDON
Yeah, the fabulous smoking just screams LOOK HOW HEALTHY I AM.
Posted: Tue Jul 15, 2014 12:38 pm
by Malcolm
GORDON wrote:Yeah, the fabulous smoking just screams LOOK HOW HEALTHY I AM.
"They say smoking cuts twenty years off your life."
"Yeah but those years are at the end and they suck anyway."
Posted: Tue Jul 15, 2014 2:14 pm
by TheCatt
GORDON wrote:Yeah, the fabulous smoking just screams LOOK HOW HEALTHY I AM.
Right?
found that 1.6 percent of adults self-identify as gay or lesbian,
So I stick to my <2%.