The Conclusion I am drawing from all this is that the Blues Come Around Every Evening When The Sun Goes Down,if I am indeed reading the chromatic extrapolation ,as stated here ,correctly.
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I know the "marital status" was a badly worded question...many of the demographics questions are only used to compare my group of individuals to other groups whose norms have been established... so let's say on a scale of red to blue, bdsmers are dark blue, well...the scale might pretend to be a scale of red to blue...but everyone who takes it comes out pretty blue! so...I could compare it to American women who responded to non-sexual surveys...or a group of American women who responded to sexual surveys (not related to BDSM interests, focused on condom use)...and i might notice that even though bdsmers are dark blue...and that seemed extreeeeme to me, a group of "normal" women are even more blue...so blue they are almost black...and so, while they were high on blue, they are actually LESS high on blue than the average woman taking the red-blue test...

I think it'll be ok...all the scales I'm using have been used in past research effectively, and I have the ability to "toss" questions that are terribly skewed...

Thanks so much for taking it!
laura