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Gallup doesn't use gaydar to find out what's what. It uses facts.
(And never mind what Obama's pollster, Joel Benenson, said last fall about wild variations in the Gallup polling data, due, he said, to a model that "...has continued to skew too old, too white and less likely to be college educated than the nation’s voters...”)
The question asked was, "Do you, personally, identify as lesbian, gay, bisexual, or transgender?"
The District of Columbia, known to many homosexuals by its underground sexual code name, "DC," was #1. North "No Dice" Dakota was dead last, and AKSARBENT attributes this to the presumption that many of the petroleum workers in the man camps around Williston who might have caused the survey to "go the other way" were too exhausted to answer Gallup's calls.
There is an interactive map provided by Gallup, accessible here, which is like that section of USA today which lets you find news from your state, only way better.
Related: AKSARBENT once knew a (straight) guy who did surveys at Gallup who had to ask mostly straight callees what beer they would choose to serve to a group of gay acquaintances. This was Gallup's sneaky way of finding out for a beer company whether its self-promotion at various gay events was working too well and was resulting in an image that was too gay.
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