re median re new study out on gay percentage in article qvb ainnmoi darkstar ucsc edu stephen orchid ucsc edu writes in article optilink com cramer optilink com clayton cramer writes from the santa rosa cal press democrat april p b male sex survey gay activity low note this contradictory title gay activity low not really the percentage of gays was low headline writers aren t noted for accuracy a new natonal study on male sexual behavior the most thorough examination of american men s sexual practices published since the kinsey report more than four decades ago shows about percent of the men surveyed had engaged in homosexual sex and percent considered themselves exclusively homosexual the article also contains numbers on the number of sexual partners the median number of sexual partners for all men was it s a shame that we don t have a breakdown for straight men vs gay bi men that would show even more dramatically how much more promiscuous gay bi men are now let s take a quick look at what you are saying the median of a distribution is that variate value which divides the distribution halfway i e of the distribution population have lower and half have higher variate values so for males the median this means that half of these men are higher than this and half are lower than this now if the population sample size is and of them are gay males are gay if we actually were either exclusively homosexual or bisexual you aren t readiing very carefully say they are distributed equally then only are greater than sexual partners of course this means that heterosexual men are greater than interesting results clayton e cramer uunet pyramid optilink cramer my opinions all mine relations between people to be by mutual consent or not at all
