wedrifid comments on Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality discussion thread, part 2 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: wedrifid 29 August 2010 02:53:32AM 4 points [-]

WIkipedia says that estimates range from one to twenty percent, and I would expect most estimates to be low because living in a still largely homophobic society biases reporting.

Yet often those making the estimates try to compensate for that bias, particularly those who are motivated to report higher statistics.