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Re:Americans Greatly Overestimate U.S. Gay Population by wool_gather on Thursday June 27, 2019 @08:47PM (#20300470)
Also, the "what's your estimate" question specifies "gay or lesbian", whereas the self-identity question apparently includes the B and T. Obviously this would make the high estimate for just "gay or lesbian" even further off, but it still doesn't say anything good about the article's conclusion.
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Re:Americans Greatly Overestimate U.S. Gay Population by JMTQp8lwXL on Thursday June 27, 2019 @08:51PM (#20300505)
Maybe a minor point, but I think sexual fluidity remains under-addressed by these polls. Some people are, for all intents and purposes, identifying as LGBT during, say, their college years, but then go on to settle down with an opposite-sex spouse.

If the person once identified as LGBT, but doesn't today, is it based on what they "actively" are? Or if you ever once identified as LGBT, for purposes of polling, you remain in that category for life?

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Re:Americans Greatly Overestimate U.S. Gay Population by meruru on Thursday June 27, 2019 @09:03PM (#20300575)
Not a minor point at all. I think sexual fluidity is one of the most relevant aspects of sexuality and I would love to see it measured. Labels like "Gay" and "Bi" are way too simplistic.
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Re:Americans Greatly Overestimate U.S. Gay Population by fuzz4lyfe on Friday June 28, 2019 @11:19AM (#20305174)
The medical terminology is better, its often "Men who have sex with men" or something similar that removes the need to understand the subjects mental state and simply focus on the important clinical data.
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Re:Americans Greatly Overestimate U.S. Gay Population by meruru on Friday June 28, 2019 @05:16PM (#20308850)
That's better, but doesn't separate men who have sex with manly men from those who only have sex with traps. It also excludes those who don't have sex at all for one reason or another.
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Re:Americans Greatly Overestimate U.S. Gay Population by masonic on Friday June 28, 2019 @02:39AM (#20302016) 

  sexual fluidity
Based on your context, "sexual preference fluidity" would be the appropriate term.
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Re:Americans Greatly Overestimate U.S. Gay Population by meruru on Friday June 28, 2019 @05:23PM (#20308894)
What's the ambiguity here? For self-identity matters we already have the expression "gender fluidity".
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Re:Americans Greatly Overestimate U.S. Gay Population by masonic on Saturday June 29, 2019 @02:08AM (#20311033)
Because sexual preference and gender identity are completely different things.
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Re:Americans Greatly Overestimate U.S. Gay Population by meruru on Saturday June 29, 2019 @01:31PM (#20313721)
Yes, I've addressed that in my comment. I was wondering if there was some third aspect I wasn't considering.
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