Talk:Saphron Cotta-Arc/@comment-37887156-20190115201528/@comment-4136655-20190213132737

Iceberg, you were making a blanket claim that 25% of the population is LGBT, which I was curious was true or not. Most countries are between 1-5% of their population being LGBT. Brazil seemed to be the outlier at around 12%. Most of this information I found on Wikipedia if you want to look at it.

Now Phantom is correct that both stats can be true, the US's total LGBT population is 4.5%, however DC's is at almost 9% of its population, while the city of San Fransisco sits at roughly 15%. (The 1 in 20 comes from a 2017 Gallup poll.) However I take issue if you're basing your 1 in 4 statistic from your school's population and applying it to the general LGBT population. Now I don't know whether you're in high school or in college, but either way, the sample sizes would be too small. If you're in high school then the population would be a few hundred to a few thousand. If you're in college, then the population would be in the thousands to the tens of thousands. It's the equivalent of saying the US is 43% black, but only using data from the city of Philadelphia to make that claim. In comparison, the Gallup poll conducted above had over 340,000 interviews, just a little under 1% of the US population.