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Based on Kinsey's scale where 0 represents a person with an exclusively heterosexual response and 6 represents a person with an exclusively homosexual one, and numbers in between represent a gradient of responses with both sexes, 6 % of those interviewed ranked as a 6: exclusively homosexual.

Apart from those who ranked 0 ( 71 %), the largest percentage in between 0 and 6 was 1 at approximately 15 %.

However, the Kinsey Report remarked that the ranking described a period in a person's life, and that a person's orientation may change.

Among the criticisms the Kinsey Report received, a particular one addressed the Institute for Sex Research's tendency to use statistical sampling, which facilitated an over-representation of same-sex relationships by other researchers who did not adhere to Kinsey's qualifications of data.