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want to repeat that to my older brothers? and being the youngest and female does that mean I am more girl?Simon Viavant wrote:It's believed that maternal immune response to successive pregnancies of males cause mothers to develop antibodies to H-Y antigen produced by a gene on the Y chromosome. This antigen influences prenatal sexual differentiation of the brain.
Napoleon Ier wrote:You people need to grow up to be honest.
I don't think you have any idea yet...Snorri1234 wrote:I always found this to be weird.
http://www.pnas.org/content/103/28/10531.fullMost recently, Blanchard et al. (15) collated several data sets and found another surprise: older brothers increase the probability of a boy becoming gay only if that boy is right-handed. Among left-handed men, there’s no difference in the incidence of homosexuality no matter how many brothers they have. What’s curious about this finding is that, by itself, left-handedness makes males and females slightly more likely to be gay (16). So left-handedness makes males slightly more likely to be gay but also negates the effects of older brothers on orientation.
Napoleon Ier wrote:You people need to grow up to be honest.
Neoteny wrote:I don't think you have any idea yet...Snorri1234 wrote:I always found this to be weird.
http://www.pnas.org/content/103/28/10531.fullMost recently, Blanchard et al. (15) collated several data sets and found another surprise: older brothers increase the probability of a boy becoming gay only if that boy is right-handed. Among left-handed men, there’s no difference in the incidence of homosexuality no matter how many brothers they have. What’s curious about this finding is that, by itself, left-handedness makes males and females slightly more likely to be gay (16). So left-handedness makes males slightly more likely to be gay but also negates the effects of older brothers on orientation.
And we all thought left was the sinister hand...
what a load of **** No it increases the original chance of you being gay. So say there is a 10% chance that you are gay, 1 older brother means a 13,3% chacne of being gay, 2 older brothers mean about 18% chance of being gay and so on.e_i_pi wrote:Are the chances increased additionally, or multiplicatively? So, if you have 3 older brothers, do you have a 100% chance of being gay? Or is it a 26/27 chance of being gay? And if you have infinite older brothers, do you have a 99.999...% chance of being gay, or 100%?
I'm not going to have a statistics lesson with you.Captain_Scarlet wrote:Neoteny wrote:I don't think you have any idea yet...Snorri1234 wrote:I always found this to be weird.
http://www.pnas.org/content/103/28/10531.fullMost recently, Blanchard et al. (15) collated several data sets and found another surprise: older brothers increase the probability of a boy becoming gay only if that boy is right-handed. Among left-handed men, there’s no difference in the incidence of homosexuality no matter how many brothers they have. What’s curious about this finding is that, by itself, left-handedness makes males and females slightly more likely to be gay (16). So left-handedness makes males slightly more likely to be gay but also negates the effects of older brothers on orientation.
And we all thought left was the sinister hand...
but there are more right handed guys so the stats will be swayed
my youngest brother is left handed so by this logic therefore straight - he will be relieved to know that he should be gay because we have older brothers BUT because he is left handed the effect is negated
Napoleon Ier wrote:You people need to grow up to be honest.
why are you backing "several" as a reasonable statistical sample?Neoteny wrote:
I'm not going to have a statistics lesson with you.
Napoleon Ier wrote:You people need to grow up to be honest.
Napoleon Ier wrote:You people need to grow up to be honest.
I guess women will have to learn how to Asexually reproduce than.Captain_Scarlet wrote:want to repeat that to my older brothers? and being the youngest and female does that mean I am more girl?Simon Viavant wrote:It's believed that maternal immune response to successive pregnancies of males cause mothers to develop antibodies to H-Y antigen produced by a gene on the Y chromosome. This antigen influences prenatal sexual differentiation of the brain.
although New Scientist had an interesting article on how eventually there will be no males seems the female chromosomes will be more successful and the weaker male chromosomes will fade away
Maxleod wrote:Not strike, he's the only one with a functioning brain.
I know of a lot of propaganda from the gayboys and a few unreplicated experiments, but maybe you could enlighten me where they have scientifically "proved" that homosexuality is biologically based.lgoasklucyl wrote:Ut oh, more scientific proof that homosexuality may be caused biologically and not because the individual is possessed by Satan
I can see the bible quoting folk scattering now.
To be fair, if you look at slice of the people who think it is a choice and dont approve of the choice, they also tend to call the individuals in questions sinners or mentally ill. I dont think they have any problem fashioning a reason for the choice from that framework.Timminz wrote:Anyone who thinks that homosexuality is entirely a choice, needs to stop and think. Considering the way gays have been, and still are treated in most of the world, why the hell would anyone choose that?
Say wha? The first post seems to indicate otherwise (and is a direct quote from the third source, no less!. That's not the only place these sources contradict each other. That, and blatant bias detract from your sources' credibility and, thereby, your argument.The probability that a man has homosexual preference increases with the number of older brothers he has. Each older brother increases the odds by 1/3 – 1/2. This effect cannot have a genetic basis. Speculations for this effect focus on the mother progressively building antibodies against an unknown male protein, more so with each son
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http://www.neoteny.org/neoteny/a/homosexuality.htmlNeoteny wrote:I don't think you have any idea yet...Snorri1234 wrote:I always found this to be weird.
http://www.pnas.org/content/103/28/10531.fullMost recently, Blanchard et al. (15) collated several data sets and found another surprise: older brothers increase the probability of a boy becoming gay only if that boy is right-handed. Among left-handed men, there’s no difference in the incidence of homosexuality no matter how many brothers they have. What’s curious about this finding is that, by itself, left-handedness makes males and females slightly more likely to be gay (16). So left-handedness makes males slightly more likely to be gay but also negates the effects of older brothers on orientation.
And we all thought left was the sinister hand...
