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To: stockpirate
Why don’t they use the real figure, 1.6%?

That's what I was going to say. The true number is between 0.9% and 2.5%, depending on definitions (are you gay if you are only willing when in prison? are you gay if you did it once as a teenager and never again? are you gay only if you prefer gay to straight? or to hit 10% are you gay if you were ever molested by a gay?).

6 posted on 04/10/2015 4:32:05 AM PDT by Pollster1 ("Shall not be infringed" is unambiguous.)
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To: Pollster1

Yup. That 10% figure must be abandoned and ridiculed. Think of your own personal experience, let’s say in high school. I went to a small school, with a little more than 100 kids in each class. There’s no f’n way 10 of them were homosexual, regardless of the definition. I can think back and imagine the figure was one or two — which fits right into the correct number of 1.6%. I know the 10% figure came from research in prisons, whatever. But now we know it isn’t true. Why do we keep using it????


10 posted on 04/10/2015 4:44:58 AM PDT by duckworth (Perhaps instant karma's going to get you. Perhaps not.)
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