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- From: glen@galileo.physics.arizona.edu (Glen Sonnenberg)
- Newsgroups: alt.rush-limbaugh
- Subject: Re: How many gays are there anyway?
- Message-ID: <1992Dec18.155513.8733@galileo.physics.arizona.edu>
- Date: 18 Dec 92 15:55:13 GMT
- References: <1992Dec18.072858.10362@mr.med.ge.com> <1gsigfINN4fu@cronkite.Central.Sun.COM>
- Organization: University of Arizona, Tucson AZ
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- In article <1gsigfINN4fu@cronkite.Central.Sun.COM> dbernard@clesun.Central.Sun.COM writes:
- >Felix Gorney writes:
- >
- >>From what I understand, this number is supposed to be apx. 10%.
- >>However, that "scientific" estimate is probably high. From what the
- >>media says on the topic, one is given the impression that the number
- >>is close to 50%.
- >
- >The 10% figure goes back to the early 50s, from the Kinsey report, a
- >report now generally considered so flawed, partisan, and unscientific,
- >that no one gives it any real credibility these days. More recent
- >figures suggest 2 or 3 % is more realistic, but I can't even say what
- >those figures are based upon.
-
- I have a friend who took a psychology class last semester that dealt with all sorts
- of sexual topics and she quoted her prof/book as saying around 2% of any population
- is homosexual. Also, I remember seeing a scientific report on TV a while back
- that discussed some evidence that the percentage of mice that were homosexual in a
- given population was proportional to stress/density that the population was subjected
- to. Just my 2 cents.
-