8L Stats 4/4/23 - Who has been publishing lately by Sexual Orientation
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KeithD
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This is easily kicked into meaningless. First, there's no bi story category. Everything someone identifying as bi has to be posted to some other category, and thus has no meaning as a stat.
I've posted 14 stories to Lit. since 2/24/2023 (presumably on the very high end as a share) and I identify as bi in my profile. 13 of those stories are in the GM category (the other one in the trans). To have any connection to the story file, I could have identified as gay instead and then the wonder of "why the Gay percentage being too low?" evaporates--all by myself. How much of that bi percentage is soaked up by my 14 stories in this period--with the stories themselves going to the GM category?
ronde
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Not trying to be a wise ass, but having done a ton of statistical analyses in my career, what this is, is an attempt to generate something meaningful without using meaningful data. When 62% of the sample has no identification, that alone negates any valid conclusions. The rest of the analysis is also pretty meaningless as far as drawing any conclusions other that what is already obvious.
The percentage of stories written by authors who identify as LGBT+ roughly equates to the estimates of LGBT+ members of the population at 7.2% as of a 2022 Gallup survey. Of those, 4.2% identify as bi, and my guess is that given the high number of unidentified authors, more than a few of them enjoy writing bi stories and that accounts for the higher percentage of stories. Of the remainder, 1% identify as gay, 1.4% identify as lesbian, and 1% identify as something else so those story totals are about what I'd expect if the population of Literotica authors is the same as the population of the US.
The percentage of stories written by authors who identify as LGBT+ roughly equates to the estimates of LGBT+ members of the population at 7.2% as of a 2022 Gallup survey. Of those, 4.2% identify as bi, and my guess is that given the high number of unidentified authors, more than a few of them enjoy writing bi stories and that accounts for the higher percentage of stories. Of the remainder, 1% identify as gay, 1.4% identify as lesbian, and 1% identify as something else so those story totals are about what I'd expect if the population of Literotica authors is the same as the population of the US.
