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I am making a promising model to graph fluid sexuality and I need help

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  1. Reptillian

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    I decided to release some details to the public to see, I cannot share what mathematical formulas I will use to graph variables of the MCSS model. Also, I'm going to need assistance which is why I decided to release details.

    Abstract: Researchers have developed scales to attempt to quantify sexuality of individuals, but they are not without problems which will be discussed in this document. The new methodology approach which is Multiple Components Scale of Sexuality (MCSS) is invented in order to minimize potential problems founded in previous attempts to place sexualities at each scales. MCSS takes account of multiple components such as the direction of sexuality such as heterosexuality to homosexuality and the degree of sexuality from hypersexuality to asexuality, importance given to personal events in the history of development, accuracy of memory regarding sexuality and experience, leaning directions, and fluidity of sexuality. Here in this document, I will attempt to explain how to graph one's sexuality using mathematical equations to express different components.
    Even if future findings shows that fluid sexual orientation does exist using the MCSS methodology, skeptics of fluid sexual orientation would argue that it should be seen as an artifact because the MCSS does not entirely take into account of how individuals look back to see if what they're feeling is accurate. In order to test the validity of their argument, one must implement a technique which relies on self-reports of confusion v. certainty of their answers to the MCSS model. It doesn't have to be long as all it takes into account of whether the individuals is certain or confused that their sexual orientation has changed. This shall be known as the Certainty v. Confusion of Sexuality History Chart (CCSHC). If future findings from the generated data using CCSHC and the MCSS methodology strongly suggests the existence of fluid sexuality, then opponents cannot use the confusion argument to invalidate the existence of fluid sexual orientation as it does not match with the findings.


    Outline:

    1. Sexuality scales
    a. Overview of sexuality scales
    b. Kinsey Scale
    I. Advantages of the Kinsey Scale
    II. Drawbacks of the Kinsey Scale
    III. Conclusion of the Kinsey Scale
    c. Klein Sexual Orientation Grid
    I. Advantages of the Klein Sexual Orientation Grid
    II. Drawbacks of the Klein Sexual Orientation Grid
    III. Conclusion of the Sexual Orientation Grid
    d. SexKen sexuality scales- (SexKen-ID, SexKen-PD, and SexKen-GP)
    I. Advantages of the SexKen sexuality scales
    II. Drawbacks of the SexKen sexuality scales
    III. Conclusion of the SexKen sexuality scales
    2. Overview of Sexuality
    a. Social Construction of Sexuality
    I. What defines sexuality?
    II. What defines sexual orientation?
    III. Should we consider the lifetime qualifier or the long current state of being qualifier to sexuality?
    b. Hypothesis of sexual orientation in general
    I. Sexual orientation is 100% innate and unchangable hypothesis
    II. Sexual orientation is hardly malleable, but not perfect immalleable hypothesis
    c. Terminologies of sexuality and sexual orientation when discussing fluid attraction
    d. Fluidity of sexuality
    e. Whether sexual orientation can change
    f. Possible explanations for the fluidity of sexuality
    g. What should we address?
    3. Multiple Components Scale of Sexuality Overview
    a. The universal set and the sets of variables
    b. Mathematics of variables
    c. Graphing the individuals' history of sexuality
    d. Graphing predictions of one's sexuality
    e. Case examples
    f. References of equations within the MCSS model
    4. Potential derivatives or offshoot of MCSS
    a. Multiple Components Scale of Gender-presentation Sexuality (MCGS)
    I. The universal set and the set of variables
    II. Unresolved problems
    b. Multiple Components Scale of Romantic Orientation (MCSRO)
    I. Changes in the meaning of variables to make the direct derivative of the MCSS model
    5. Certainty v. Confusion of Sexuality History Chart (CCHSC)
    a. The purpose of the CCHSC
    b. Overview of the CCHSC
    I. Structure of the CCHSC
    II. Mathematical references to the CCHSC
    6. Conclusion of the MCSS model
    a. The benefits of the MCSS
    b. Limitations of the MCSS models
    c. Future versions and possible derivatives of the MCSS model
    7. Conclusion of combining two models
    a. The benefits of combining MCSS and the CCHSC to study people's sexuality
    b. The benefits of having derivatives of the MCSS model
    c. The shortcomings to the MCSS approach
    d. Future approaches to studies using derivatives of the MCSS and the CCHSC
    e. Final conclusion

    Here's what I need assistance with:
    - I need assistance into finding how the Kinsey scores is calculated using this website as a reference -> Kinsey Scale Test

    The reason I need to do it is because I need to show that sexuality scale tests uses some mathematical operations to determine one's sexuality. After I do all of that, I will write up mathematical equations for the MCSS model.

    What I know:

    To get X
    - I can be sexually attracted to anyone in the right circumstances. - False
    - I have no interest in sexual intercourse with anyone. - True
    - I have never felt sexual desire. - True

    Most of the conditions have to be met to get X

    One way of getting F into the Kinsey Scale, here's the answer
    I have never felt sexual desire. - False
    I can not decide what sex I am attracted to more. - False
    I find the idea of having sex with another ["man" if male, "woman" if female] repulsive. - False.
    I wouldn't want to die without having experimented sexually with both men and women. - False.
    I have no interest in sexual intercourse with anyone. - False.
    The gender composition of an orgy would be irrelevant to my decision to partiticipate. - True.
    I avoid watching ["gay" if male, "lesbian" if female] pornography. - True.
    I can be sexually attracted to anyone in the right circumstances. - False.
    I have always been extremely confident in my sexual orientation. - False.
    I find ["men" if male, "women" if female] more attractive than ["women" if male, "men" if female].- False.
    I would find a threesome with a couple akward specifically because of the presence of the ["man" if male, "woman" if female]. - False.
    I am only attracted to ["women" if female, "men" if male]. - False.
    I am sexually submissive. - True.

    So, how do I get score 1,2,3,4,5,6 independantly?

    I may get back to this thread to find out more
     
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    1) That link you posted seems incredibly inaccurate and/or biased. I'm not sure you would bother using that as a reference point, scientifically. Regardless, there are plenty of ways that you could develop a "scale" from using a questionnaire; you'd be better off asking the creators of that questionnaire than having a bunch of strangers making guesses at best. Or better yet, create your own scale.

    2) I don't understand what value there is to modelling the fluidity of sexuality. It's like trying to model race or handedness - you could do it, but what's the point? Why do you want the results? What are you hoping these results will explain?

    As a researcher, those are questions I think you need to answer.
     
  3. Reptillian

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    1) The reason I'm linking to it is to show one way of generating a score for sexuality and yes, I am to show problems with those questionaires. So, inaccuracy or bias is not a problem since I'm going to mention problems.

    2) Basically, to model the fluidity of sexuality, you have to look into degree of changes and the amount of occurrence of changes in direction of sexual interest and the degree of attraction. The more degree of changes in a occurrence and the more incidents of changes, then the more fluid is one's sexuality is. In this document, I am going to claim that there's a difference between fluid sexuality and fluid sexual orientation where fluid sexuality is when changes occur often while fluid sexual orientation is changes that occur very few time while it is more rigid although the degree of changes can be extreme.
     
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  4. LD579

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    The inherent problem with this is quantifying something that is not quantifiable. How was your day today, on a scale from 1 to 10? 1 would be an utterly despairing day, and 10 would be the best imaginable day ever. Would it be a 5? A 6? As you can see, there are problems with such an approach, and it can be seen as analogous to what you're attempting to do.
     
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    Just to humor the site, I took the test.

    "F The test failed to match you to a Kinsey Type profile. Either you answered some questions wrong, or you are a very unusual person."

    Either I'm broken, or the site is. >_>
     
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    F The test failed to match you to a Kinsey Type profile. Either you answered some questions wrong, or you are a very unusual person.



    ok