now this begins to be a useful approximation of orientation

[jinian]

from http://www.sagepub.co.uk/journals/details/issue/sample/a010339.pdf

Own sexual identity was assessed with a modified form of the Klein Sexual Orientation Grid (KSOG; Klein, 1985). Participants were asked to rate four dimensions: their physical and sexual attractions/fantasies; their sexual behavior; their emotional connection; and their self-identification during the past four years along a Kinsey-type, seven-point scale, in order to examine what the meaning of sexual orientation was to each person. These four entries were summed to create a single value for the variable of sexual orientation, with higher scores indicating greater degrees of identification as a lesbian.

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[rivka.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I've seen the Klein grid before, and it is a big improvement in terms of descriptive accuracy.

That said, I wonder why the authors of this paper took all those Klein scores (attraction, behavior, emotions, identity) and lumped them all together again into a single summed score. It would seem to me that the whole point of using the Klein grid is to be able to separate those things out and examine them separately.

[jinian.livejournal.com]

That part didn't make a lot of sense to me either. Maybe they were trying to get past some kind of resistance to identifying precisely, but it seems like they'd have to be sneakier than that to get anything the respondents didn't want to tell them.