Out of curiosity... "purity" graph

[jay]

I looked at the posted public scores of people on my friends-list who took that test over the past couple of days, and generated a histogram. It looks like a two-mode distribution, centered around the low-30s and mid-60s respectively... I fall into the latter clump, personally (score = 69). Compare my friends with the average of all those taking the test (currently = 66)...

Oh, well... off to work now.

Comments

A couple of thoughts....

[brooksmoses]

I just realized, in reading one of your later posts, that this test is biased towards bisexuals by about 20%. See, people who've had full-on sex with both genders get to check off most of the points in both the "same sex" and "opposite sex" categories, whereas people who've only had experience with one gender only get one category -- even if they've had many different partners. And there goes 1/5th of the test.

Hmm....

So, consider your spread. It appears to me that a person who's had relatively vanilla sex with people of just one gender will get around 60%. A person who's had relatively vanilla sex with people of both common genders will get around 40%. Add to this that a moderate amount of kinkiness will get another 10% to 20% off, and one expects some smearing downward from those points.

Thus, I'd conclude that the gap at 50% likely indicates that your bisexual friends tend to be kinkier than your straight (or purely homosexual) friends. And the relative weighting indicates that you probably have more bisexual people on your friends list than you do straight or homosexual people.

It occurs to me that it might be interesting to try separating out the data by orientation to see if that holds up, and also to try separating it out by gender to see if there are gender differences.

Re: A couple of thoughts....

[brooksmoses]

Or maybe not; I should have read the comments before posting!

[brian1789.livejournal.com]

Actually, it's 1/6, not 1/5, so not as much of a difference. But I agree with you (and purplecthulhu) in that there are probably other kinky/fetish behaviors that in addition with relations with both genders, tend to lower scores by more than just 1/6. Those folks that are willing to experiment in one area may very well be willing to try out behaviors in some of the other areas.