NPR⁠84%

The number of U.S. adults who identify as LGBTQ+ doubled in 12 years, new poll shows ⁠75%

By C Mandler⁠0%

3/13/2024, 5:18:16 PM

BS Summary: This article contains 19 faulty reasoning types, including Ambiguity (Equivocation), Quote-first Misdirection, and Overconfidence Bias, with Unattributed Quote as the most egregious example at 31.3% saturation with 109 hits. Analysis detected 778 faulty-reasoning hits from 348 analyzed words, generating a BS Score of 66.5% and a BS Rank of ⁠75% (5,629 of 21,887 articles). This article is worse (more manipulative) than 74.30% of the article peer group.

The number of American adults who identify as LGBTQ+ has more than doubled in the last 12 years, according to new polling from Gallup. 
The latest results show that 7.6% of U.S. adults now align themselves with the LGBTQ+ community — up from 3.5% in 2012, when Gallup started collecting this data. 
Compare that to four years ago, when the figure was 5.6%. 
The latest findings continue a trend showing that the number of LGBTQ+ American adults has increased every year the analytics company has collected such metrics. 
"Increases in LGBTQ+ identification in recent years have occurred as members of Generation Z and the millennial generation have entered adulthood," according to the study. 
"Adults in these younger generations are far more likely than those in older generations to identify as LGBTQ+." 
Each younger generation is about twice as likely as the previous generation to identify as LGBTQ+, and more than one in five Gen Z adults — age 18 to 23 during the data collection period — identify as LGBTQ+. 
Gallup collected its 2023 data through telephone surveys with more than 12,000 Americans 18 or older. 
Of the respondents, 85.6% said they were straight, 7.6% identified with one or more identifiers within the LGBTQ+ community, and 6.8% of those surveyed declined to respond, Gallup said. 
The data found that bisexual adults made up the largest proportion of the LGBTQ+ community, with 4.4% of U.S. adults and 57.3% of LGBTQ+ adults reporting that they are bisexual. 
Women are twice as likely as men to identify as LGBTQ+, a data point that does not account for the nonbinary population, Gallup noted. 
"There are not sufficient cases to provide precise estimates of LGBTQ+ identification among nonbinary Americans for 2023 alone, but combined data from 2022 and 2023 indicate that about 80% of nonbinary adults identify as LGBTQ+, with one-third being bisexual and one-third transgender." 
About one in eight LGBTQ+ adults are transgender, Gallup said — or less than 1% of the total American adult population. 
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348 words analyzed.

Speakers

1speaker26%attributed speech258writer words
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Writer's voice • 16 words • 100.0% coverageWriter's voice • 24 words • 100.0% coverageWriter's voice • 28 words • 0.0% coverageWriter's voice • 11 words • 0.0% coverageWriter's voice • 25 words • 0.0% coverageWriter's voice • 25 words • 100.0% coverageWriter's voice • 18 words • 100.0% coverageWriter's voice • 39 words • 0.0% coverageGallup • 16 words • 0.0% coverageGallup • 29 words • 0.0% coverageWriter's voice • 30 words • 0.0% coverageGallup • 24 words • 100.0% coverageWriter's voice • 42 words • 100.0% coverageGallup • 21 words • 0.0% coverage
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Gallup

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0%17.5%35.0%Quote-first Misdirection-32.9 ptsWriter: 32.9%Gallup: 0.0%0.0%Unattributed Quote-6.3 ptsWriter: 32.9%Gallup: 26.7%26.7%Attempt to Sell a Product -9.3 ptsWriter: 9.3%Gallup: 0.0%0.0%Biased Writer Voice-6.2 ptsWriter: 6.2%Gallup: 0.0%0.0%

Attribution is sentence-level. Pattern percentages are calculated only from words assigned to that voice.

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