[dangus]

Go figure that I'd ever defend homosexuals, but a 12% increase in criminal behavior rates is not impressive. Far, far away from what I would call "far more likely." In fact, I could think of a hundred legitimate statistical adjustments that would probably make that number disappear.

[dangus]

OOps... I take that back... The article is poortly written. Gays aren't 12% more likely to take part in a crime, they are more than 100% more likely!:

>>The data for criminality indicated that 22.8% of homosexuals have been booked for committing a crime, compared to 11% of heterosexuals.<<

[MarineBrat]

>>The data for criminality indicated that 22.8% of homosexuals have been booked for committing a crime, compared to 11% of heterosexuals.

Looks like > 100% to me. Someone "de-fanged" the first paragraph to sound better for homos than it really is.

[Antoninus]

Go figure that I'd ever defend homosexuals, but a 12% increase in criminal behavior rates is not impressive. Far, far away from what I would call "far more likely."

Read the whole article. That statistic was misleading. What it said was, the incidence of criminal activity among heterosexuals is 11%. Among homosexuals, it's 22.8%. If the news source in question was a mainstream effete media outlet, they would have run a headline like this:

"Gays twice as likely as straights to commit crimes."

[ModelBreaker]

Go figure that I'd ever defend homosexuals, but a 12% increase in criminal behavior rates is not impressive.

Actually, it is much worse than that--the author didn't understand his numbers. Rounding, 11% of heteros have been arrested and 23% of homos have been. I assume that's where he gets his 12%. But actually, it's a more than 100% increase in the rate of criminality as the rate more than doubled.

[little jeremiah]

Someone probably already told you, but it's an increase of 100%. Twice as likely. That IS significant.