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Re:Poll: Male or female or other by kintamanimatt on Tuesday April 09, 2013 @04:27PM (#5521097)
It wasn't really that complicated! Gender does matter when it comes to sexual orientation as I believe more women identify as "non straight" than men. I did worry that I wasn't being inclusive enough, but didn't want it to get too long.

What was interesting, is that there's 20% non-straight guys, which is 4-5 times higher than the general population. This is really interesting to me.

I think it got flagged to death because it came across as backlash, which it wasn't.

Re:Poll: Male or female or other by stratosvoukel on Tuesday April 09, 2013 @04:41PM (#5521199)
I cant see how you can have a poll for both gender/sexuality. If you want to be inclusive it would easily have more than 50 option due to the simplicity of the HN polls (also Male/Female , internationally, are more usually used to describe sex not gender ) :/ It may have been flagged to death due to other factors as well (eg. homophobia?, people not being comfortable with it etc)
Re:Poll: Male or female or other by Fargren on Tuesday April 09, 2013 @06:03PM (#5521702)
I think there was a strong bias for people who see themselves as not conforming to the norm to vote, so the would have been over-represented in the poll.