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Torillian on 27 February 2016
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IkePoR said:
Torillian said:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/volokh-conspiracy/wp/2014/07/15/what-percentage-of-the-u-s-population-is-gay-lesbian-or-bisexual/

Mk, so here's one with 35,000 respondents.  If we look at just gay and bi then we have 2.3% of the population.  Changing the numbers above 80% of movies should not contain any gay or bisexual people, making 20% of movies should have one which roughly matches with the 17% of movies that had one in 2014.  Again, I just don't think there's any reaonable math to say that LGBT minorities specifically are overrepresented in movies.  

Or here's one with 120,000 respondents: http://www.gallup.com/poll/158066/special-report-adults-identify-lgbt.aspx

This puts the LGBT population at 3.4% which adjusts the numbers above to 70% of movies having only straight characters, 30% of movies should have an LGBT character.  

Well, I wasn't aruging for either side really, only desired your numbers to be present for everyone reading, and that 1,000 people for such a study is far, far too small. That said, thank you for the research.  

yeah that's fair, I didn't notice the size of the original linked gallup poll, thanks for that.  Out of curiosity, I know there are numbers behind how many people you need to survey to have a reasonable chance of being correct when upscaled to a population of x size, but I don't recall what the equation is.  Do you happen to remember?  



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