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(This is the passage about sexual orientation)
The question is "Implicit in the author's conclusions that 'Thus, for one to label oneself 'gay'/'lesbian,' it seems crucial that they have both homosexual behavior and desire (lines 51-53', is the assumption that"
The answers and the question explanation claim, while expressing surprise, that Laumann reported how 1.4% of women and 2.8% of men labeled themselves homosexual and then failed to give further information on them.
HOWEVER, the passage reads:
"In the general population, 1.4% of women and 2.8% of men labeled themselves homosexual. Of these, 59% of women and 44% of men..."
The rest of the paragraph is devoted to giving further information about the 1.4 and 2.8 percent of people cited. How can they interpret "of these" to not pertain to the group they just mentioned? In light of this, their answer is wrong.
Did anybody else find this strange? I want to see if you guys agree that this is an error. I'm pretty convinced it is but don't want to spend money to subscribe to the EK forum to tell them about it.
The question is "Implicit in the author's conclusions that 'Thus, for one to label oneself 'gay'/'lesbian,' it seems crucial that they have both homosexual behavior and desire (lines 51-53', is the assumption that"
The answers and the question explanation claim, while expressing surprise, that Laumann reported how 1.4% of women and 2.8% of men labeled themselves homosexual and then failed to give further information on them.
HOWEVER, the passage reads:
"In the general population, 1.4% of women and 2.8% of men labeled themselves homosexual. Of these, 59% of women and 44% of men..."
The rest of the paragraph is devoted to giving further information about the 1.4 and 2.8 percent of people cited. How can they interpret "of these" to not pertain to the group they just mentioned? In light of this, their answer is wrong.
Did anybody else find this strange? I want to see if you guys agree that this is an error. I'm pretty convinced it is but don't want to spend money to subscribe to the EK forum to tell them about it.
