That might be largely nurture... The more older brothers you have as a child, the more you are going to be nurtured by your older brothers. You look up to them, and it's not outside the realm of reason that simply looking up to your older brothers helps to foster a kind of glorification of men in your mind as a young child which might then translate into sexual attraction as you get older.
The fact that a few, dozens, or even hundreds of families in which there are 10+ boys and none of them turn out to be gay of course doesn't disprove the statistic. The statistic doesn't say "if you have 10 boys, the 10th is gonna be gay". The statistic says a 10th boy is _more_likely_ to be gay than a 10th child in a family with fewer boys. So in a sample of 1,000 families, you may find that amongst families with 2 boys, 1% of the youngest boys turns out to be gay, whereas in families with 6-8 boys, 1.5-2% of the youngest boys turns out to be gay. Even at 2% that is a noticeable increase in likelyhood, and still leaves 980 families in the sample with potentially no gay children compared to only 20 whose youngest boy is gay. Why do people not understand likelyhoods? Everybody thinks that if you make a comment about statistics that just because they've seen the oposite happen a few times the statistic is invalid. > I didn't see that part, but that doesn't make any sense at > all. I've > seen only child boys, and families with 10 bots and none > gay. > I don't think anybody has a clue what makes one person > gay, anymore than > we can understand the emotions behind love. >> -----Original Message----- >> From: Gruss Gott [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >> Sent: Monday, March 13, 2006 10:59 PM >> To: CF-Community >> Subject: Re: Being Gay: Nature or Nurture? >> >> The 60 minutes link that I posted gave this interesting >> fact: the more >> older brothers a boy has, the higher the probability he >> has of being >> Gay. >> >> So, evolution may have found a way of controlling the >> population - and >> it may be in all mammals. s. isaac dealey 434.293.6201 new epoch : isn't it time for a change? add features without fixtures with the onTap open source framework http://www.fusiontap.com http://coldfusion.sys-con.com/author/4806Dealey.htm ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Message: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=i:5:200000 Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/threads.cfm/5 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=s:5 Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.5 Donations & Support: http://www.houseoffusion.com/tiny.cfm/54
