ONS Gay Survey: Gaydar Nation

Following the ONS sexuality survey claiming only 725,000 people - or 1.5 percent of British adults - were gay or bisexual, Gaydar were quick to issue a self-promoting press release [reprinted in first comment] pointing out that this sounded rather odd - as there are 2,185,000 Gaydar and Gaydar Girls profiles registered in the UK.
Neil Midgley wrote in The Daily Telegraph; 'Now I'll never find a boyfriend. There aren't enough gays.'
"...these ONS figures are rubbish. And I have figures of my own to back up that claim.
"The gay ‘dating’ website Gaydar has 1.5million profiles in the UK [This is the figure for the mens' site only]. Given that almost all its users are men, that means – if the ONS figures are to be believed – that at least 1.25million heterosexual men in the UK are registered on a site whose principal purpose is to hook men up with each other for casual sex.
"Of course Gaydar is entirely private and a bit naughty, whereas the ONS figures come from a survey where people were asked out of the blue to tell the government their sexuality. Whose figures do you think are likely to be more accurate?"
The Gaydar figures - which I believe are an accurate number of the profiles, and not a PR fantasy figure - were also referred to in articles by Philip Hensher in The Independent, Mark Townsend in The Observer, and on Queerty.
Well, not every gay man - or bisexual man - has a Gaydar profile, so the actual figure could be higher.
Though Fagburn suspects the truth is somewhere between the ONS figure and Gaydar's.
But only Queerty saw that the Gaydar gaystimate was almost certainly just as flawed as ONS's.
Gaydar has being going for over a decade, and how many of us have opened multiple profiles over the years?
You may have one where you're looking for love, another where you're being a slut.
It also seems common practice to close a profile when you get a new boyfriend.
Then maybe open a secret one.
Then start yet anther one once you're single again.
And so on and so one and so on...