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Accrovideogames posted...

Again, I don't give a shit about the Kinsey scale and you're free to use it or not. But don't claim to have taken the Kinsey scale test and gotten an impossible result.

You keep using terms like scale and test interchangeably, but that's not actually how things work.

Kinsey (and his co-researchers) came up with the scale. He based his findings on thousands of in-depth interviews with subjects across a wide spectrum of experiences. He didn't invent a simplistic Internet quiz designed to place you definitively and irrevocably on a single point on the scale. The scale was never meant to be an objective quantitative value as much as a short-hand for indicating variance, similar to Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs.

The test you keep pointing to as if it were Holy Writ has absolutely nothing to do with Kinsey and has zero authority to represent his research. It was cobbled together by random assholes 50+ years later based on their understanding and interpretation of the original research. You're basically pointing to the equivalent of a Facebook quiz telling you which Hogwarts House you'd belong in and treating it like the Sorting Hat was real and just gave you your official assignment.

The test you're pointing to has no more legitimate claim to authority or meaningful worth than any other 30-second quiz you can find on the Internet on any given subject. It doesn't make you correct any more than the other quizzes make you a wizard, or a magical spirit animal, or a Pokemon.

And even Kinsey himself would disagree with you:

"It should be recognized that the reality includes individuals of every intermediate type, lying in a continuum between the two extremes and between each and every category on the scale." He said that.

So basically, you're completely full of shit and should probably stop throwing meaningless temper tantrums.