Blackstone, as to skewing the results: I think, as long as we only post results where we KNOW that a BL has or has not had a sexual experience with an adult (as a child), the results shouldn't be too badly skewed. [We "KNOW" because they have told us personally, or said so on a public forum.] I don't think we should "default" everyone to an "A" just because we don't know one way or the other.

Let's go over this again. These are all made up numbers used only to illustrate the point more clearly, but here we go:

I know 20 BLs. I have only ever discussed this issue with 5 BLs. 3 of them claim to have had sexual experiences as a child. 2 did not. I come on this forum and report the following:

person 1: B
person 2: B
person 3: B
person 4: A
person 5: A

this is a 3:2 ratio in favor of having had sexual experiences.

Here is what the real numbers are if we count all of those people I know for whom I had no data:

16: A
4: B

Thus the actual ratio is 4:1 in favor of those who have not had sexual encounters. This is an incredibly different ratio from the one above. What happened? It was a bad sample. Why? because the 4 guys who had experiences were far more likely to bring it up in conversation than the 16 who did not. After all, those 16 have nothing to bring up while the other 4 do. So, three of those 4 did bring it up at some point while to the other 16, this isn't something they really think about so it only ever came up in conversation with two of them.

The above alone clearly shows that this kind of sample is not only useless, but it is clearly skewed in favor of those most likely to bring up this issue in conversation, those who have something to talk about (because they had experiences).

There are many other reasons why you would not want to include these second hand accounts in even this most unscientific of polls. But that is clearly the most serious, we know ahead of time that the numbers would, without any doubt, be skewed in a particular direction.