irelephant@lemmy.world to Showerthoughts@lemmy.worldEnglish · 4 months agoIf sexuality is a spectrum, does that mean one person is the gayest?message-squaremessage-square136linkfedilinkarrow-up1444arrow-down114
arrow-up1430arrow-down1message-squareIf sexuality is a spectrum, does that mean one person is the gayest?irelephant@lemmy.world to Showerthoughts@lemmy.worldEnglish · 4 months agomessage-square136linkfedilink
minus-squarejjjalljslinkfedilinkarrow-up3·4 months agoIt’s not a set, so you can have duplicate values. So no, probably not. Like you have a list and the range of its values is [0 … 1]. You can have a whole lot of 1s, but none of them are the sole biggest value.
minus-squareAmidFuror@fedia.iolinkfedilinkarrow-up1·4 months agoBut gayness would be a continuous, not a discrete, metric.
It’s not a set, so you can have duplicate values. So no, probably not.
Like you have a list and the range of its values is [0 … 1]. You can have a whole lot of 1s, but none of them are the sole biggest value.
But gayness would be a continuous, not a discrete, metric.