Polygamy

[William T Goodall]

On 4 Feb 2008, at 15:50, Julia Thompson wrote:
> Oh, OK.
>
> All I was operating on was anecdotal evidence, which was *very*  
> heavily biased towards lesbians.  Thank you for the information!
>

Anecdotal evidence is unreliable. Thirty men and women started a  
computer science degree with me and by the fifth year there were only  
six of us (all male) left. And one (at least) of my five classmates  
was gay. So that's nearly 17%. And in my first programming job in an  
office with about ten men and one (married) female office  
administrator (at least) one of my male colleagues was gay. So that's  
about 10%.

So by my personal experience of college and the workplace up to that  
point I'd have to say between 10% and 17% (at least) of men were gay.  
Looking on friendsreunited  at my old high school class I see only one  
of them has come out - as a lesbian, but I don't actually remember  
her. She's the only lesbian I know (AFAIK) whereas I know a few gay  
men apart from my ex-classmate and ex-colleague. So my anecdotal  
evidence would have gay men outnumbering lesbians by around 5 to 1 or  
so.

But the numbers I believe are the ones from serious scientific surveys  
Maru.

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