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To: Poet who wrote (11494)5/1/2002 2:20:32 PM
From: TimF  Read Replies (1) of 21057
 
Eighteen thousand in itself eliminates a lot of the skew you seem to be concerned with.

I understand 1/4 of the people in his sample where prison inmates. I think this would bias his results no matter how large of sample he used.

I also mentioned that this was the
mid-forties, an initial attempt to gather data

I acknowledged that, but it doesn't directly deal with the issue of sample bias.

and a very thorough series of interviews.

The large sample and the thorough interviews are the many reason that the study can be useful despite the bias. There would be a lot of specific detail with all of these thorough interviews , but probably not anything that could give you an accurate estimate of the percentage of the population that is homosexual.

Tim
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