Homosexuality and choice: KC Star Letters 1/14/07

If the context is Social, there must be variability in biological and other factors said to effect the degree of Choice "we" have in certain behaviors.

IF we could validly and reliably describe agreed upon behavioral factors in terms of the shared languages of Rational Empiricism, i.e. describing experiencial characteristics of test groups, representing whatever Population, in terms of whatever statistical assumptions.

If a valid and reliable test were in fact implemented, and if the test yeilds reliable data, the score frequency distribution(s) (for which-ever agreed upon "Dependent Variable" being evaluated) most likely demonstrates what is referred to as "the Bell Curve" - a very politically In-correct notion anymore, i.e. "the Normal Distribution around whatever mean, median or mode" that shows up in valid reliable applied research. The Normal Distribution is bell-shaped, with few high scorers, few very low scorers, and MOST scores around whichever you prefer of : mean, median, or mode, with margins of error of course.The "Normal Distribution" is a statistical entity based on the number of times a given score occurs in one or more groups. Certain types of valid group tests yeild this pattern: few high, few low, and most scores around somekind of mean.The extent to which Biology determines Homosexuality would be a spectrum composed of variations in factors that are a spectrum from Highly biological in nature, hard-wired, to Highly Arbitrary Choice in nature. If it were possible to devise and implement a test, the validity and reliability of which is identified by a more or less "Normal Distribution" of the empirical evidence, according to common statistical tools we might expect to find:A relative few people who are indeed highly characterized by the biological factors that amount to being born a Homosexual.

A relative few people who actually are highly characterized by the Arbitrary factors associated with the opposite of being biologically pre-determined, i.e. relatively HIGH degree of Choice in the Experiences tested, other Motivators involved.

Also - By Far - most of the scores from a hypothetical test of the factors affecting Homosexual Behavior, again - the great majority of scores from this hypothetical test of homosexuality would be mixes of factors/influences on the behavior in question, with 50:50 usually being the dominant dynamic.

Before you flame me about this, please note basic assumptions, there can be quite a bit of difference between a given individual and a group.

- And - This hueristic is, of course, Hypothetical, because the basic subject is the philosophy of Rational Empiricism, a.k.a. the Scientific Method, which IS essentially hypothetical.

Also for flame inocculation: My personal ethic is that 50:50, 1:99, whatever Biology:Choice or anything else, it's the Individual's God Given Human Right and Responsibility to Choose what is Right and Wrong, so 50:50, 30:70, 60:40, 10:90, 90:10, 99:1, the Individual's soul is best manifested in its own behavioral confirmation of whatever the truth actually is.

Hare Krsna!