Monday, July 6, 2015

American delusions: 23% believed to be gay/lesbian when in fact only 3.8% are LGBT

Meaning the specifically gay/lesbian are fewer than 3.8%.

Gallup reported here May 21, 2015:

PRINCETON, N.J. -- The American public estimates on average that 23% of Americans are gay or lesbian, little changed from Americans' 25% estimate in 2011, and only slightly higher than separate 2002 estimates of the gay and lesbian population. These estimates are many times higher than the 3.8% of the adult population who identified themselves as lesbian, gay, bisexual or transgender in Gallup Daily tracking in the first four months of this year.




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While the least educated among us are off on the estimate by a factor of over seven, the smartest, with post-graduate degrees, are still off by a factor of nearly four, according to Gallup.

And you thought belief was purely a phenomenon of religion.