Stathol wrote:
I've noticed that over the course of this thread, your position has changed from "that link supports his assertion" to "a single graph within the link supports his assertion".
The graph is evidence of information aggregated at the link and it supports Arathain's assertion. There's been no change. The link is to "Kinsey scale", and the graph is, wait for it.. the very scale in question! woohoo!
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As to this:
Taskiss wrote:
There's only one category for straight on that graph.
That's entirely dependent on your interpretation that any value bar with any blue shading whatsoever wouldn't bear the "straight" qualifier. There's no reason to make that assumption on the basis of the graph alone. It also continues to ignore the fact that the chart doesn't even use the terms "straight", "gay", or "bent".
Arathain was using colloquialisms. I understood him just fine. Your ignorance of them is irrelevant.
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Moreover, it isn't supported by the description of the categories in the article, and it also ignores the fact that Kinsey rejected categories as an actual phenomenon, and only implemented them for the sake of statistical analysis.
He can reject them all he wants, the link was to information that supported Arathain's assertion.
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I.e. go read the last post Corolinth made, with special attention to "continuity of gradation". The only way you can conclude that the graph supports Arathain's theory is by completely ignoring its context. The context which, by the way, you originally claimed supported Arathain's theory before you changed your goalposts.
I don't think using as evidence a graph of Kinsey's Scale is changing the goalposts, seeing's how that's the topic you apparently think you're talking about.
Here's the scale and other info, directly from the Kinsey Institute itself!
http://www.iub.edu/~kinsey/research/ak-hhscale.htmlQuote:
Though the majority of men and women reported being exclusively heterosexual, and a percentage reported exclusively homosexual behavior and attractions, many individuals disclosed behaviors or thoughts somewhere in between.
So, can we now argue about the difference between "majority" and "many"?
Personally, I think "majority" means "majority", and "many" is a much smaller subset thereof.