Error comments on 2014 Survey Results - Less Wrong

87 Post author: Yvain 05 January 2015 07:36PM

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Comment author: Error 05 January 2015 01:59:25PM 6 points [-]

almost as common as female heterosexuality here, as you would expect

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.

Comment author: roystgnr 05 January 2015 09:56:53PM *  1 point [-]

All I've come up with is a half-formed joke about how human females really are intrinsically attractive after all.

Comment author: Error 05 January 2015 11:04:57PM 0 points [-]

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.

Comment author: Vulture 06 January 2015 12:55:59AM 3 points [-]

The wiki of a million lies

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?

Comment author: Error 06 January 2015 08:01:26PM 3 points [-]

I meant Wikipedia. I've actually never heard the phrase applied to any other wiki. It's certainly not original to me.

Comment author: Vulture 07 January 2015 09:21:58PM 1 point [-]

Thanks!

Comment author: Alsadius 12 January 2015 09:36:26PM 2 points [-]

None of the other wikis you list are big enough to have more than maybe 75,000 lies.

Comment author: Nornagest 12 January 2015 10:53:27PM 1 point [-]

Are you counting talk pages? I'd expect those to have a higher density of lies than the main namespace.

Comment author: Alsadius 13 January 2015 12:39:50AM 0 points [-]

Sure, but I'd expect that smaller wikis have exponentially less talk, because there's fewer people to do the talking.

Comment author: JohannesDahlstrom 05 January 2015 11:19:36PM *  3 points [-]

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.

Comment author: CBHacking 07 January 2015 02:32:24PM 1 point [-]

Anecdotally, this matches my experience (both on OKC and the "bisexual but hereroromantic" thing with three of my four most recent sexual partners).

Comment author: buybuydandavis 11 February 2015 09:44:08PM 3 points [-]

Great line from OkCupid:

The primacy of America's most popular threesome, two dudes and an Xbox, is safe.

Comment author: Vaniver 05 January 2015 11:29:07PM 1 point [-]

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.

Grammar modified to be clearer, thanks for pointing that out.