• sudneo@lemm.ee
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    4 months ago

    Yeah but I could only find past issues of the Global Sex Survey. I am specifically interested in the scale used for questions (and their results).

    Maybe it will take some time for the report to be published though

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      4 months ago

      The scale is likely the Kinsey scale. A 0-6 scale of sexuality. Zero is completely straight and six is completely gay.

      Most people find themselves somewhere in the middle, even if they don’t admit it.

      I’m somewhere in the range of 1–1.5

      I’m firmly attracted to the opposite gender, but might make an exception if the person had a personality that was super compatible with my own. But it’s not something I’m going to seek out.

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        4 months ago

        But do you think that in the survey they simply asked people where they “place” themselves on the scale, or they had questions that were used to infer the value? I am genuinely curious because I didn’t know this scale before, and I honestly have no idea what it means being a 1 vs a 2, even after reading the scale, it’s very abstract. So I am wondering what possible questions were in the survey. Unfortunately, I still did not find the full report.

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          Methodology would be nice to know, but I think the Kinsey scale is abstract for a reason. It’s a tool to allow a person to broaden their own understanding of themselves.