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My 3% came from this article (which I linked, but which is fine to have ignored):

http://www.japan-guide.com/topic/0011.html

The LGBT stat came from Wikipedia. For controversial stuff like that in the US, WP is pretty good. I used to think it was 10-15%, 1 in 7 was the number I learned growing up, I guess it's 1 in 25.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LGBT_demographics_of_the_Unite...

For me, "abnormal" generally means "what is wrong with you" (the response given here), whereas "normal" can even include eye-rolling and "oh so you're one of those". The difference between 1 in 33 (3%) and 1 in 666 (0.015%, from the tail end past +3 sigma which accounts for 50% - 99.7% / 2) is really quite palpable.

But again, let's face it: it's not as common as I thought, and it's not as uncommon as you thought.

parent ectoplasm 11 years ago

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