Re: My Brother made me Gay!!

Roger Mills wrote at 2003-05-27 15:09:24 (-0400)
 > via immune reaction in mother's womb....well, we were skeptical,
 > weren't we, but here's the scoop (from this week's TIME magazine)--
 > <quote> Ray Blanchard at the University of Toronto has found that
 > gay men are more likely than either lesbians or heterosexual men to
 > have older brothers (but not older sisters).  He has since
 > confirmed this observation in 14 samples from many places.</quote>
 >
 > That's quite a sample.  Among my (at least) 14 friends, only 1 has
 > an older brother.  2 including me have older sisters.  The rest
 > were eldest child, or sole child. How's that for significance???
 >

While I have no opinion regarding the intrisic likelihood of this
theory, I'd imagine that each "sample" consisted of more than one
subject.