Is homosexuality a natural response to large populations?

Nearly 0.6% of the US population was reported by the 2000 US census to consist of male homosexual households. With that in mind, the number 0.7% seems unreasonably low.http://www.census.gov/prod/2003pubs/censr-5.pdf
301,000 male same-sex coupleshttp://www.census.gov/prod/2002pubs/c2kprof00-us.pdf
Male population 138,053,563
Male population over 18 100,994,367602,000 (Male homosexuals in relationships in US. 301,000*2)100,994,367 (since we’re talking couples in living situations where one of the members is the head-of-household. It seems necessary to limit the male population to those over 18 year of age.Yields:
0.59607284830053937562676144106136%Doesn’t include the impact of AIDs deaths on the US male homosexual population.Doesn’t include male homosexuals in institutional settings.No reliable percentage was found for figuring a rate of census under-reporting by male homosexuals.[Edited to fix formatting to improve readability.]This message has been edited by Trae, 06-26-2004 03:36 AM

So no comment? Does the math look correct?

I was looking at this thread and with all the numbers being thrown around my level of suspicion (my distrust of behavioral studies statistics) started kicking in. ;-)I saw Rrhain’s figures based on a Washington march and remembered reading an article some time ago about the difficultly of establishing attendance numbers for public gatherings. Since I knew this was something that particularly the SFPD had been taken to task for (war protests, pride parades, etc), I thought perhaps there were some recent figures using more accurate methodologies. Unfortunately, I wasn’t able to determine if they’ve been implemented as of yet. This seems to be a dead end, so I was racking my brain as to if there were any numbers which would be more trustworthy, when I remembered the census had started tracking non-married couples and specifically same-sex couples as of the last US Census.I can’t think of any reasonable ways to extrapolate the Census data to encompass the general population with any degree of certainty.As to your figures, and I really might be way off here (having never taken any statistic courses):I’m not sure where you’re getting the 7% figure, did you mean 0.7% and not 7%? You’re referring to that earlier study you cited?I’m not sure how one would go about making any comparisons between the given coupled same-sex populations and the unknown single same-sex populations. The societal presupposition is that same-sex male couples are less capable of forming and maintaining coupled-relationships. Even if that isn’t the case, I can’t think of a way to draw conclusions based on such dissimilar groups.