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Re: OT: What? the clean-shaven outnumber the bearded? "Yer Ugly Mug," etc.

From:Andreas Johansson <andjo@...>
Date:Tuesday, May 20, 2003, 20:01
Quoting Christophe Grandsire <christophe.grandsire@...>:

> En réponse à Andreas Johansson :
> > but if the "big brother effect" > >is true it presumably has a cause. Individual gays lacking elder > brothers > >isn't > >really an argument against it - the data presentated in the New > Scientist > >article I read about this in already included plenty of such people. > > It can be an argument against it if it proves statistically that > whether > you're the eldest brother or not, it doesn't significantly modifies > the > percentage of homosexual orientation.
But to prove that, we don't need to know that a couple particualar gay guys lack elder brothers - we need data on a whole lot of gay and straight men. It's of course possible that the study was based on false or biased data, but as said I see no particular reason to assume so.
> Also, Such a study forgets > female > homosexuality altogether, and I doubt a valid study can do so.
I can't see any a priori reason why the causes of male homosexuality should necessarily the same as those of female homosexuality. The article asserted that there is no correlation between a woman's sexual orientation and the number of her elder siblings of either gender. Andreas