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Alfred Kinsey conducted research to determine what percentage of the population was heterosexual and what percentage was homosexual. Why would he have avoided asking the question, "Do you identify as gay or straight?"

A) He tried to offset bias in his research sample by having many questions.
B) He believed that people were not exclusively either gay or straight and that those two binary classifications were too limiting.
C) He believed that people would lie to him and would need to be tricked into revealing that they were gay.
D) He thought that there would be a large number of transgender people in his sample.

Alfred Kinsey

An American biologist and sexologist who founded the Institute for Sex Research at Indiana University.

Heterosexual

A sexual orientation characterized by romantic or sexual attraction between people of the opposite sex.

Homosexual

Pertaining to or characterized by a sexual attraction towards members of one's own sex.

  • Distinguish among sexual orientation, gender identity, and sexual attraction.
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