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Timmy and I were talking about this. All this information came frm my senior Sociology class at school. Feel free to give opinions.
81% of sypillias and gonhearea cases are African Americans.
20-30 million americans have genital herpes
USA AIDS:
750000-800000 people haveHIV/AIDS
2/3 of the people don't realize they have it
Top 5 States with the most amount of Aids cases
New York
California
Florida
Texas
New Jersey
Percent of white males with aids
gay 74%
IV Drug users 9%
Straight guys 4%
Blood transfusion 1%
Other 4%
Gay and Iv Drug user 8%
Percent of woman who get aids
62% were from guys and IV drug users
In the 1980s Gay males had on average 7 partners a month
in 2000 gay males had on avergae 2 partners a month
straight folks 2 partners a year
Why are you wearing that stupid man suit?
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Those are some interesting stats. I have become less and less a beliver in stats however. It started for me when Stats-Can completed it's big long survery here in Canada and released it's findings that among other things stated that the number of gay people in canada is slightly less than 1 per thousand! Now i finished highschool last year, i graduated from a small school with approx 1000 students. Other than that my school was average for my city. I sat at 'the gay table' in the cafeteria which acording to Stats-Can should consist of me, myself, and I. But i can name right now 15 others who sat at that table who were also gay. and i can name 3 others that i knew were gay but didn't spend time with. Thats 18/1000, logic would dictate that there are more, lets say 20/1000 that's 2/100 or 1/50. Still not a very high number but certainly better than Stats-Can. So i looked at the method they used to get these results, i did a bunch of reasurch for a project that i did for a very cool teacher i had at the time. This is how they did they got these results; They randomly phoned people or knocked on their doors and asked for a moment of their time. they asked, among other things, "what sexual orentation to you define yourself as?" Now most people are uncomforatble with such blunt questions asked of them over the phone or by a stranger at their door. i think that threw off the numbers greatly. I have no better idea on how to conduct this servey but to me at least what they did didn't seem the best method.
then, i hear on the radio, some loud-mouthed pinhead saying that, "this survey proves that the gay comunity is trying to artificialy inflate their numbers not only to give themselves a louder voice but to tell our youth that its okay to be gay..." (i don't see a problem yet) "...in the hopes to thereby convert them." (ouch) well even in rednecked country where i live he got a bunch of mad callers and was forced to appologise later.
I dunno, a lot of people except 1/10, the Kinsey sexual orentation continuum states 50/50, while i have heard other numbers like 1/100, 1/1000, "there are no queers in this town" and, "It's just something that a bunch of weak kneed liberal sissys thought up for God knows what reason." (actualy i have heard those two statements, they were actualy spoken to me durring a family vacation i was on a few years back, we were only about 100km from home at the time.)
As for sociology, i love my Soc class  we talk about a bunch of fun stuff in that class and i think that my teacher and my text book both handle these delecate issues well. There were two things from my text that i did enjoy though,
"In fact, among the ancent Greeks, upper-class men considered homosexuality [as] the highest form of relationship, partly because they looked down on women as intellectualy inferior. As [these] men saw it, heterosexuality was necessary only so they could have children and 'real' men prefered other men as sexual partners"
"The Sambia, who dwell in the eastern highlands of New Guinea, have a ritual in which young boys preform oral sex on older men in the belief that ingesting semen will enhance their masculinity (Herdt, 1993)"
Wow, another long Pyro post. I guess i just love to talk.
Take care,
Pyro.
Do what you love, changing the world is incidental.
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Well, although the numbers seem relatively higherinsh, the numbers are still low compared to here in South-africa. In our town of about 35 000 people more than 1860 people got AIDS this year. And that i still think that is relatively on the high side. In LO we wrote exams about this just last thursday and the case is very serious, although i dont know the percentage of gay, or straight,i do know that just over 18% of them do use drugs, seeing as the amount of kids in my school who i know for a fact use drugs is so high. Our country is bad, realy bad. I think I'll emigrate
A truth told with bad intent
Beats all the lies you can invent
-William Blake
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I agree. Statistics can be made to say almost anything you want. In the 1924 British General Election the playwright/philosopher/socialist Geroge Bernard Shaw caused a sensation when he claimed that there was a place in England where 50% of the population were illiterate. Upon investigation it was discovered that the place was a hamlet occupied by just a man and his wife - and she could not read or write.
And before you dare think it - no this is NOT personal reminiscing! I am not THAT old! It's just interesting 'junk' that I have picked up by the way.
The paradox has often been noted that the United States, founded in secularism, is now the most religiose country in Christendom, while England, with an established church headed by its constitutional monarch, is among the least. (Richard Dawkins, 2006)
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Statistics can be "massaged" to reflect an almost infinite variety of scenarios; each reflecting, to one degree or another, the views of those controlling a given paradigm.
The problems associated with StatsCanada surveys, and in truth most Government Agency authored statistical summaries, lie not with the data itself, but more with manner in which that data has be collected. For example, data collected from raw input, where the end-user has little or no control over the content of the source (other than to guarantee that all data within the parameters of the proposed study is being considered) is better than data collected on an ad hoc, or voluntary basis, such as is the case with normative data StatsCanada used to compile the results you refer to in your comments about Sexuality. These numbers are taken largely from required Census Data, compiled from what are known in the trade as "Self-directed Response Questionnaires". The respondent in instances such as these may in fact provide false, misleading, or truthful responses, all within the same questionnaire. An answer to any given question in a self-directed questionnaire may be not answered at all, or should the respondent have concerns about how the information may be retained in data-bases, and otherwise used, patently lied to. Many homosexuals, whether practicing or not, have long had a history of paranoia regarding Governmental collection and dissemination of numbers regarding sexual behaviour and norms. Canadians are no exception here. What would be more telling is the raw data from which those percentages were derived.
Statistical accuracy demands provable veracity of the data. I give you the preferred order of data collection methodology for most consumer-related statistical surveys:
1) Morbidity Statistics - Numbers compiled from disparate sources, often Governmental Agencies (they themselves with no vested interest in the numbers) such as Driver's Licensing records, Automobile Registrations, Health Insurance Enrollment records, Tax Rolls, Hospital Admissions, Accident Reports, and the like. Depending on the nature of the study being undertaken, sources such as these can often be the most accurate. My firm, for years has used Tax Rolls as our preferred normative data-base for compiling lists of potential prospective survey recipients, with our rational for having done so being the completeness, and accuracy of the "entire" data-pool Until the early 1990's, Electoral records, depending on whether age, and "legal" entitlement to vote may have been one of the variables in survey respondent selection criteria, might have been used to further weed out potential unqualified respondents prior to a survey taking place. Unfortunately with Canada's adoption of U. S. styled voluntary registration to vote with the ratification of NAFTA, and the responsibility of ensuring the veracity (and accuracy) of Voter Registration data no longer being the charge of the Government, we no longer use Electoral databases.
2) Focus Groups - targeted personal confrontation, either individually or within selected "sub-set" groupings of individuals, meeting pre-determined (and controlled) criteria; for example, age, ethnicity, state of health or income. To be accurate Focus Groups need to be randomly assembled (generally through pre-screening techniques like pre-qualifying telephone interviews), demographically represent the overall survey coverage area (be that City, County, Province/State, Country, whatever), with all groups being held within a rigidly controlled time-frame (in other words not encompassing weeks or months or even years of data collection, but rather days) and lastly all participants in the Focus Groups screened one-on-one prior to their final participation to remove as best as is practicable bias. Properly undertaken, a National Survey, compiled through the media of Focus Groups may be deemed to be statistically accurate to within plus/minus 1 percentage-point, 19 out of 20 times. Unfortunately this process is extremely costly, and could well run into millions of dollars in today's economic climate, and for this reason is seldom employed.
3) Telephone Surveys - whether they be "Targeted" or "Randomly" directed. targeted telephone survey are preferred, but often because of time or financial constraints, this is not practical, with randomly generated dialing more often the norm. Telephone surveys rely to a very large degree on the abilities of the "interviewer", it being either he or she who must determine if the respondent is playing them, and abort interviews that may be questionable. A typical National survey in Canada would comprise between 1020 and 1070 respondents to a given topic, balanced demographically according to population and filtered for age, income and gender according to national norms. Surveys such as these would typically be accurate 19 out of 20 times plus/minus 4 percentage-points. Most Political Polling in Canada is undertaken using Random dialing within a targeted response area. Targeted (that is to say either "named" respondent, or pre-qualified by age, or some other criteria) could well be accurate 19 out of 20 times plus/minus 2 or 3 percentage-points.
4) Self-directed Surveys - the most often used measurement vehicle, and least accurate of all. Found typically in mail throw-aways delivered in that ubiquitous plain white envelope, often multi-page, and designed to obtain shopping preference and buying data. Inducements for replying to these is most often the lure of free coupons, or product. Surveys of this nature are valuable in establishing "trends" but little else. Web-polls, on-line surveys and their ilk are numbered in this category. Within the "Commercial" World, Self-directed Response questionnaires are valuable to a slightly larger degree; but only because the respondents are usually imparting information related to narrowly defined areas of expertise, and for this reason, is probably the most widely used vehicle for data collection within that venue, especially if opinion, rather than hard numbers are be sought.
The Art of Polling has come a long, long, way from it's earliest beginnings with the Telephone and, more recently, the Internet revolutionizing the medium. Audits and Surveys (A&S Inc) of New York pioneered the first use of computer assisted telephone interviewing (CATI)in the early 1970's, and frankly, our World has not been the same since. If you shudder each and every time your telephone rings during the dinner hour, you have George Biros to thank for that. He and his A&S team (and later Market Probe Inc.) fostered the techniques which have seen "polite intrusion" developed over the intervening years into an art form.
Warren C. E. Austin
AustinPalmer Associates
Toronto, Canada
"... comme recherché qu'un délice callipygian"
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In Africa, AIDS tends to be much less a "gay disease" than in the states. and you're right--the figures from that continent are truly hideous.
cheers,
aj
"I promise not to try not to fuck with your mind/ I promise not to mind if you go your way and i go mine/promise not to lie if i'm looking you right in your eye/promise not to try not to let you down."
--Eve6
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HIV/AIDS, bad anywhere, worse in Africa. Use protection and practice safe sex. Be careful out there!
P.S. -- blumoogle, nice to see you, hope you're doing better.
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