At 03:00 03-01-01 +0000, you wrote:
>John D. Giorgis wrote:
> >
> >It is not clearly biased at all. Even assuming a 10% homosexuality rate,
> >which I suspect is rather high, that means only one out of every 10
> >charachters who engage in relationships could be expected to have a
> >homosexual relationship. Given the number of charachters on a given show,
> > there is nothing outside reasonable probablility. (This is especial true
> >if you discount the original series where even if a homosexual relationship
> >was written, it would certainly never be aired.)
> >
>Ok, but if we assume a 1% homosexuality rate, which I suspect is rather
>small, in the 1000 relationships that were shown in Star Trek there should
>be a mean of 10 with sigma of about Pi [:-)], so that a 95% confidence
>interval should include at least 3 homosexual relationships.
>
>Alberto Monteiro
But 990 of those involved James T. Kirk and the green-female-of-the-week,
so your sample is not exactly a random one.
-- Ronn! :)
