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What Percent of the Population is Gay? More Than You Think. (BS alert)
Smithsonian ^ | October 24, 2013 | Rose Eveleth

Posted on 02/14/2014 3:28:21 PM PST by Salman

According to a study from the National Bureau of Economic Research, about 20 percent of the population is attracted to their own gender. That’s nearly double the usual estimates of about 10 percent. The authors explain that their methodology might have something to do with it:

Participants were randomly assigned to either a “best practices method” that was computer-based and provides privacy and anonymity, or to a “veiled elicitation method” that further conceals individual responses. Answers in the veiled method preclude inference about any particular individual, but can be used to accurately estimate statistics about the population. Comparing the two methods shows sexuality-related questions receive biased responses even under current best practices, and, for many questions, the bias is substantial. The veiled method increased self-reports of non-heterosexual identity by 65% (p<0.05) and same-sex sexual experiences by 59% (p<0.01). The veiled method also increased the rates of anti-gay sentiment. Respondents were 67% more likely to express disapproval of an openly gay manager at work (p<0.01) and 71% more likely to say it is okay to discriminate against lesbian, gay, or bisexual individuals (p<0.01).


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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Extended News
KEYWORDS: 20percentnow; 2or3percent; academicbias; anotherstudy; cultureofcorruption; culturewar; gayagenda; goebbelswouldbeproud; homosexualagenda; junkscience; lavendermafia; orwelliannightmare; pinkkjournalism; pravdamedia; pseudoscience; smashmongamy; thebiglie
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To: Salman

Considering all the states with gay marriage or civil unions, where are the numbers of unions or fake marriages? Too small to announce.


41 posted on 02/14/2014 4:36:02 PM PST by aimhigh
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To: arderkrag
Kinsey also got his "numbers" by interviewing prisoners.

Not to mention that "Mr. X" he interviewed who supposedly molested hundreds of kids.

Did Kinsey DO anything about that molester?

Hell, NO!

He used it to prove "sexual responses" in toddlers.

And Kinsey also had sex with his interviewees, male and female.

Why Kinsey is so lauded and respected is a mystery.

He wasn't just a terrible "scientist", he was a filthy degenerate.

42 posted on 02/14/2014 4:44:33 PM PST by boop (I just wanted a President. But I got a rock.)
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To: Salman

There’s no reason why it couldn’t be 100% Just need to get everybody on board with depravity.


43 posted on 02/14/2014 4:52:31 PM PST by BenLurkin (This is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire; or both.)
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To: Salman
 photo Obama-with-Reggie-Love.jpg..................We know these two are gay.
44 posted on 02/14/2014 4:53:30 PM PST by mandaladon (The truth about Benghazi is all I want)
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To: Salman

I lie to pollsters because most of them are liberals with an ax to grind. If they call me up I will tell them that I am queer and all of my seven brothers are queer and all of my sisters are transsexuals. I hear that high school kids lie their asses off on any survey involving sex.


45 posted on 02/14/2014 4:55:06 PM PST by forgotten man
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To: IronJack

Are you saying that out of a country of 320,000,000 million people only 6 million are gay? That is two percent. I find that hard to believe. It seems it has to be at least 32 million just in Hollywood alone. I think your figures are WAY off.


46 posted on 02/14/2014 4:56:53 PM PST by napscoordinator ( Santorum-Bachmann 2016 for the future of the country!)
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To: Salman; nickcarraway

“Gay” is often manipulated in surveys. As nickcarraway observed, non-gay leftists often claim to be gay to inflate the numbers.

One of my favorite biased surveys (but A+ for creativity) defined gay as having had a homosexual encounter in the past five years, which doesn’t look terrible until you notice that they asked about specific experiences and counted having had a same-sex person make a pass as a homosexual encounter. In other words, if a pervert made a move on you, you counted as gay.

The best numbers I have seen came from a well-designed study, and the conclusion was that 1.5% to 2.5% of the adult US population was gay. Throw in bisexuals, and the number rises to 4% to 5%.


47 posted on 02/14/2014 5:03:26 PM PST by Pollster1 ("Shall not be infringed" is unambiguous.)
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To: originalbuckeye

I don’t know, maybe it’s me. They seem to be everywhere making an obnoxious, nuisance out of themselves. T.V is being totally “fagafied.”


48 posted on 02/14/2014 5:07:27 PM PST by Banjoguy (The Mayor of San Antonio is the smoothest liar I have ever seen.)
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To: a fool in paradise
 photo image001.jpg................Our Gay leader in DC
49 posted on 02/14/2014 5:11:15 PM PST by mandaladon (The truth about Benghazi is all I want)
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To: Salman

I think that the percentage is actually increasing.

When you have so many people who are so lost, raised without knowing God and His truth, so rebellious and angry, they will latch onto anything that they think gives meaning to their lives.


50 posted on 02/14/2014 5:22:24 PM PST by JudyinCanada
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To: boop

He’s lauded an respected because he (quite properly) kept himself detached and clinical about his results. That’s what a researcher does - if they do their job correctly. They turn off their emotions and just record results.


51 posted on 02/14/2014 5:31:48 PM PST by arderkrag (An Unreconstructed Georgian, STANDING WITH RAND.)
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To: JudyinCanada
I think that the percentage is actually increasing. When you have so many people who are so lost, raised without knowing God and His truth, so rebellious and angry, they will latch onto anything that they think gives meaning to their lives.

I think you nailed it!

52 posted on 02/14/2014 5:37:28 PM PST by Theodore R. (Alas: TX Republicans to endorse Cornball and George P! Stay tuned March 4)
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To: Salman

As I stated on a thread earlier today, there seems to be a full-court press to get a lot of pro-homosexual stories out. Couldn’t be some agenda, right?


53 posted on 02/14/2014 5:47:16 PM PST by Bigg Red (O LORD, our Lord, how majestic is your name in all the earth! Ps 8)
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To: IronJack

Its 2-3%, but maybe !0% of Hollyweird, 20% of fashion designers and interior decorators. Its maybe 30% of liberals and feminists, especially those in newsrooms.

But they have no kids to send to college so they have twice the disposable income, and therefore have more money to give toward activism, and political causes.

I don’t care what consenting adults choose to do as long as they are discrete, I don’t tell people what goes on privately , wish they would just shut the hell up and not force us to hear about their doings.


54 posted on 02/14/2014 5:49:49 PM PST by Zenjitsuman (New Boss Nancy Pelosi)
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To: Salman

We have an epidemic problem with porn addiction. Many of those sex addicts have a preference to homosexual sex especially if they have an aversion to it.

I wouldn’t be surprised.


55 posted on 02/14/2014 5:50:14 PM PST by mgist (.)
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To: Fred Nerks

An interesting perspective.
Thanks for posting.


56 posted on 02/14/2014 6:00:33 PM PST by nascarnation (I'm hiring Jack Palladino to investigate Baraq's golf scores.)
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To: Salman

Truly amazing how quickly they multiplied. Before Obama, homosexuals were estimated to be 2-3% of the population. Seems like they are multiplying faster than Obama’s budget deficits. How do they do that since they cannot give birth?

What is really scary is that at 20% a significant portion of my acquaintance must be hiding their sexual preference. Kind of reminds me of the invasion of the body snatchers. They are hidden all around us. We just don’t know it. Soon they will conquer us. Oh my God!!!


57 posted on 02/14/2014 6:06:01 PM PST by CdMGuy
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To: originalbuckeye

Give deviance the chance and it will grow.


58 posted on 02/14/2014 6:56:09 PM PST by onedoug
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To: Salman

I was always attracted to the coolness of Steve McQueen, but that doesn’t make me a queer.


59 posted on 02/14/2014 6:59:16 PM PST by fwdude ( You cannot compromise with that which you must defeat.)
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To: Salman; a fool in paradise

An earlier study concluded that 94% of the interior decorator population is gay.


60 posted on 02/14/2014 7:03:09 PM PST by Revolting cat! (Bad things are wrong! Ice cream is delicious! We reserve the right to serve refuse to anyone!)
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