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. -- William T Goodall Mail : [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web : http://www.wtgab.demon.co.uk Blog : http://radio.weblogs.com/0111221/ I think a case can be made that faith is one of the world's great evils, comparable to the smallpox virus but harder to eradicate. - Richard Dawkins _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
