Pink News — This is how many LGBT people identify as asexual in America

[Homer]

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Research from the Williams Institute has shown for the first time how many of America’s sexual minority population identifies as asexual.

 

Out of a sample of around 1,500 lesbian, gay and bisexual people, 1.7 percent said they identified as asexual. 

9 August - https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2019/08/09/how-many-lgbt-people-identify-asexual-america/

[Kitteη χ]

Their statistics about aces can't be trusted at all. 1.7% of their original sample of 1500 people means that they only had a sample of around 25 or 26 aces. Which is a really tiny sample.

[Homer]

6 minutes ago, Kraken X said:

Their statistics about aces can't be trusted at all. 1.7% of their original sample of 1500 people means that they only had a sample of around 25 or 26 aces. Which is a really tiny sample.

I'm not sure what the problem is here. They've asked 1,500 folks, which is a decent sample size.

[Kitteη χ]

39 minutes ago, Homer van Simpsegem said:

I'm not sure what the problem is here. They've asked 1,500 folks, which is a decent sample size.

I suppose I wasn't clear. I agree that 1500 is a decent sample size, so it's fine for them to say 1.7% of LGB people are ace.

 

What I was referring to was when they give statistics on the subsample that identified as ace, such as that 72% of us are nonbinary or that 86% are AFAB. Those statistics are only out of the subsample of around 25 aces, and so are much less likely to be accurate.

[Homer]

3 minutes ago, Kraken X said:

What I was referring to was when they give statistics on the subsample that identified as ace, such as that 72% of us are nonbinary or that 86% are AFAB. Those statistics are only out of the subsample of around 25 aces, and so are much less likely to be accurate.

That is indeed correct. I totally misread that.

[daveb]

5 minutes ago, Kraken X said:

I suppose I wasn't clear. I agree that 1500 is a decent sample size, so it's fine for them to say 1.7% of LGB people are ace.

 

What I was referring to was when they give statistics on the subsample that identified as ace, such as that 72% of us are nonbinary or that 86% are AFAB. Those statistics are only out of the subsample of around 25 aces, and so are much less likely to be accurate.

Not to mention it's a sample of LGB people, so it leaves out aces who don't consider themselves part of that population, such as probably a good proportion of heteromantic aces.  

[Guest]

There are so many outlets for LGBT people. Can't we let the asexual people have their own space? So frustrated.