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I'd be interested to see the orientation numbers broken down by sex/gender. My personal experience is that geek/nerd women seem to be bisexual at surprisingly high rates. I'm wondering if having typically-male personal pursuits (e.g. LW) is correlated with typically-male sexual interests (i.e. liking women).
I'm in that boat. Feels like I'm missing out on half the potential fun. :-(
Men who aren't bisexual are missing considerably less than half the potential fun, since the proportion of men who are gay or bisexual is fairly low.
Yeah, but gay men are also more promiscuous.
Is your comparison "than straight men" or "than straight women" here?
Using the "Sex" (not gender) and "Sexuality" columns, omitting blanks, asexuals, and others:
So the male/female ratio by sexuality is:
The sexuality percentage by sex is:
So while female bisexuality is almost as common as female heterosexuality here, the total bisexual ratio resembles the male bisexual ratio closely, as you would expect from the male/female ratio being so high overall (8 men per woman in this restricted sample).
I initially misparsed this as "the female bisexuality rate is as expected." I see that isn't what you meant, but had to re-read two or three times. Just FYI.
I feel like a 42.2% bisexuality rate among LW women is surprising enough to say something, but I'm not sure what.
Grammar modified to be clearer, thanks for pointing that out.
It is interesting. IME in real life and in OkCupid, female self-identification as bisexual correlates quite strongly with the geek/liberal/poly/kinky meme complex (edit: mirroring your experiences, didn't read carefully enough). Out of my top matches in OkCupid, over 80% of women interested in men seem to self-report as bisexual.
However, also IME, bisexual identification usually doesn't imply being biromantic! Many of those women have had, or would like to have, sexual experiences with other women, but still may prefer men in romantic relationships almost exclusively.
FWIW, I support adding a question about romantic orientation in the next survey.
Anecdotally, this matches my experience (both on OKC and the "bisexual but hereroromantic" thing with three of my four most recent sexual partners).
Great line from OkCupid:
All I've come up with is a half-formed joke about how human females really are intrinsically attractive after all.
While an appealing hypothesis, if that were the case I would expect roughly the same percentage for the general public. The wiki of a million lies suggests the actual rate for the general public is in the low single digits.
As clever as this phrase is, it is tragically ambiguous. I'm guessing 65% chance Wikipedia, 30% RationalWiki, 3% our local wiki, 2% other. How did I do?
None of the other wikis you list are big enough to have more than maybe 75,000 lies.
Are you counting talk pages? I'd expect those to have a higher density of lies than the main namespace.
Sure, but I'd expect that smaller wikis have exponentially less talk, because there's fewer people to do the talking.
I meant Wikipedia. I've actually never heard the phrase applied to any other wiki. It's certainly not original to me.
Thanks!