Raise Your Threshold For Accusing People Of Faking Bisexuality
Astral Codex Ten Podcast · Jeremiah Prophet
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https://astralcodexten.substack.com/p/raise-your-threshold-for-accusing
I.
Many comments in yesterday's post about self-identified bisexuals getting long COVID centered on a concern that self-identified bisexuals don't really date both sexes, and are just claiming to be bi because it's trendy.
Bisexuals themselves hate this and have written many articles and papers about why you shouldn't say it (1, 2, 3). But I especially appreciated a discussion in the comments between Nom de Flume, Ryan W, and others, giving a great statistical explanation for why it's tempting to believe this, but why it isn't true.
Suppose someone (let's say a woman) has exactly equal sexual attraction to both men and women.