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Cake day: July 24th, 2023

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  • Ah. I missed the fine print part that says the actual data is from census polls, rather than what is actually likely. When you said “that doesn’t mean all those people identify that way”, I was like BUT THAT’S THE WHOLE POINT. That does change my impression of the graph significantly, because that would not necessarily mean the numbers are “actual”, but rather, should read “actual poll data”.

    Most of the graph I feel is about right, too. I just find it hard to believe a lot of the upper half of the stuff is so wildly wrongly estimated AND that non-hertero sexualities is still portrayed as basically legacy data, rather than trying to forecast what we all know would be if people weren’t repressed by society. Again, though, it’s this way to fit a narrative, thus my minor issue.



  • I feel like a lot of these numbers, both the “estimated” and “actual” are just outright fucking wrong. Every single person I grew up with was at least some level of gay or bisexual. I get what they’re going for, but they’re also dramatizing it by picking more extreme numbers. Like I’d bet that only 30% of people are actually, truly cishet, if not even lower.

    Then there’s the problem of a single number of “estimated”, which can only be an average number. Which contains, likely, some juicy demographics data, assuming they actually polled enough people and kept all the information. I’d be curious to see graphs for each and every number presented here.