Is Big Brother an accurate guage?

[Dave_au]

Originally Posted by Dave_au

Of course not. If you think its an accurate reflection, nearly every show has one, if not two gays. Following that logic, it would suggest that 1/12 of our population are openly gay, whereas I think the published statistic of openly gay people is much lower.

Originally Posted by LTDHO

It is actually 1/10 so they are fairly close.

Originally Posted by Deadman

I thought it was higher? 10%. Could be wrong though...

I thought it was actually lower than that for having at some stage those particular tendancies/experiences (1/5), but I thought that people who actually identify with being gay and consider themselves as gay (what I mean by openly gay) were about 4 or 5% of the population.