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44 Post author: gwern 12 December 2014 08:34PM

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Comment author: devi 12 December 2014 11:34:02PM *  10 points [-]

Men made up 88.8% of respondents; 78.7% were straight, 1.5% transgender, ...

The author makes it sound like this makes us a very male-dominated straight cisgender community.

Mostly male, sure. But most people won't compare the percentage of heterosexuals and cisgenders with that of the general population to note that we are in fact more diverse.

Comment author: ciphergoth 13 December 2014 08:37:41AM 17 points [-]

Never mind comparing; simply writing "Women made up 11.2% of respondents, 21.3% were not straight..." would have put a very different spin on it.

Comment author: chaosmage 14 December 2014 09:56:53AM 1 point [-]

Sorry, I don't see it. How would that've been different?

Comment author: ciphergoth 14 December 2014 04:40:48PM 10 points [-]

For the same reason they write "90% fat free" on foods rather than "10% fat".

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