Americans Greatly Overestimate U.S. Gay Population

Re:Americans Greatly Overestimate U.S. Gay Population by Grue3 on Friday June 28, 2019 @06:25AM (#20302964)

Alternative headline: Gallup greatly underestimates US Gay Population.

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Re:Americans Greatly Overestimate U.S. Gay Population by djdidf on Friday June 28, 2019 @06:55AM (#20303083)

Sure, but you better have research to back it up. Gallup has theirs.

Honestly I don’t know why 5% is controversial. It’s one in twenty. 25% would be one in four. Do you really know one in four homosexuals unless you live in, say, San Fran?

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Re:Americans Greatly Overestimate U.S. Gay Population by Grue3 on Friday June 28, 2019 @07:43AM (#20303321)

Well, sexuality is a spectrum. The exact number of gay people depends on what is defined as a cut-off. It seems reasonable to me that at least 1 in 4 people wouldn't be 100% straight.

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Re:Americans Greatly Overestimate U.S. Gay Population by stankypickle on Friday June 28, 2019 @02:41PM (#20307545)

Doubtful:

"Thus, Gallup's methodology is not the only way to estimate the percentage of the population that is gay or lesbian. Still, all available estimates of the actual gay and lesbian population in the U.S. are far lower than what the public estimates, and no measurement procedure has produced any figures suggesting that more than one out of five Americans are gay or lesbian."

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