The U.S. pet ownership is approximately 60% Dogs and 40% Cats. Dog ownership is normal. Cat ownership is abnormal.
That doesn't work.
I believe a strong majority would consider something that 40% of people have as something normal to have.
Stating that it's abnormal doesn't make it so; it only reveals the arbitrary assignment of a definition for "abnormal" that is incongruent with the way the word is "normally" used, e.g., that anything under 50% qualifies that thing as abnormal.
I don't know where the normal/abnormal "line" is, nor am I picking one arbitrarily; I would just submit that it's a lot closer to the 93/7 for hetero/homo than the 60/40 for dog/cat ownership.
That doesn't work.
I believe a strong majority would consider something that 40% of people have as something normal to have.
Stating that it's abnormal doesn't make it so; it only reveals the arbitrary assignment of a definition for "abnormal" that is incongruent with the way the word is "normally" used, e.g., that anything under 50% qualifies that thing as abnormal.
I don't know where the normal/abnormal "line" is, nor am I picking one arbitrarily; I would just submit that it's a lot closer to the 93/7 for hetero/homo than the 60/40 for dog/cat ownership.
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