World Gay Happiness Index 2015

[Swiss1960]

Found this "Gay Happiness Index" through a link in a Swiss newspaper, thought I might share it here. Don't know about the reliability / scientific value, but (if true) 115'000 votes is pretty much. Language can be switched on top right. Thailand is said to rank #16

[isanbirder]

Yet another "world ranking"! At least this one is a new idea.

Basically what it says is that Europe is the best place for gays to live (that includes offshoots of Europe, i.e. Australia and South Africa), with only Thailand managing to breach European solidarity.

For what the whole thing is worth.

[asanee]

Comes from Planet/Gay Romeo-one of the best known classic dating sites.

Just as those airline rankings etc. they often only reflect how many ''members'' they have in the elected countries. And yes, they are quite big in TH, and not at al in China.

(In airline rankings usualy the airines that have most pax come top-many voters simply do not know an other so cannot compare).

[Jingthing]

I wouldn't trust the rankings from Gayromeo for Thailand because a huge percentage of the so called Thailand people on that site are westerners ... who are of course quite "happy" with gay Thailand. Not the same as being a Thai national in Thailand.

I'm sure there are similar limitations for many of the countries "ranked" in this way.

Basically, such a survey is completely unscientific.

About as accurate as a poll done on thaivisa.com.

For ENTERTAINMENT purposes only.

Scientific polling is done by professional organizations that use established methods of reducing limitations to accuracy.

[lostoday]

I wouldn't trust the rankings from Gayromeo for Thailand because a huge percentage of the so called Thailand people on that site are westerners ... who are of course quite "happy" with gay Thailand. Not the same as being a Thai national in Thailand.

I'm sure there are similar limitations for many of the countries "ranked" in this way.

Basically, such a survey is completely unscientific.

About as accurate as a poll done on thaivisa.com.

For ENTERTAINMENT purposes only.

Scientific polling is done by professional organizations that use established methods of reducing limitations to accuracy.

Right now 301 people logged in Pattaya - 12 Farang and 289 Thai.

[Jingthing]

I wouldn't trust the rankings from Gayromeo for Thailand because a huge percentage of the so called Thailand people on that site are westerners ... who are of course quite "happy" with gay Thailand. Not the same as being a Thai national in Thailand.

I'm sure there are similar limitations for many of the countries "ranked" in this way.

Basically, such a survey is completely unscientific.

About as accurate as a poll done on thaivisa.com.

For ENTERTAINMENT purposes only.

Scientific polling is done by professional organizations that use established methods of reducing limitations to accuracy.

Right now 301 people logged in Pattaya - 12 Farang and 289 Thai.

You counted them?

You do realize the voting in this is SELF selected, right?

You have no idea what percentage of the people voting in Thailand were foreigners or even just foreign tourists.

You do realize as an English language website, foreigners would be much more likely to vote, and most Thais probably couldn't even understand the survey.

Again, a totally worthless ranking for Thailand as far as telling us any truth.

Yes I would say the same thing if the ranking was under Iran.

Just worthless.

Garbage in.

Garbage out.

[lostoday]

I wouldn't trust the rankings from Gayromeo for Thailand because a huge percentage of the so called Thailand people on that site are westerners ... who are of course quite "happy" with gay Thailand. Not the same as being a Thai national in Thailand.

I'm sure there are similar limitations for many of the countries "ranked" in this way.

Basically, such a survey is completely unscientific.

About as accurate as a poll done on thaivisa.com.

For ENTERTAINMENT purposes only.

Scientific polling is done by professional organizations that use established methods of reducing limitations to accuracy.

Right now 301 people logged in Pattaya - 12 Farang and 289 Thai.

You counted them?

You do realize the voting in this is SELF selected, right?

You have no idea what percentage of the people voting in Thailand were foreigners or even just foreign tourists.

You do realize as an English language website, foreigners would be much more likely to vote, and most Thais probably couldn't even understand the survey.

Again, a totally worthless ranking for Thailand as far as telling us any truth.

Yes I would say the same thing if the ranking was under Iran.

Just worthless.

Garbage in.

Garbage out.

Only 12 Farang easy to count. I figure the percent is 80% Thai 10% Farang and 10% other.

[Jingthing]

Good for you.

Again.

Self selected.

English language.

Totally unscientific.

[lostoday]

Good for you.

Again.

Self selected.

English language.

Totally unscientific.

The Thai people all post in Thai language. I guess you don't mean that though.

[Jingthing]

I meant the survey was in English. Not Thai.

[Scott]

I will close this topic. Please post comments in this thread:

http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/826518-thailand-is-the-happiest-country-to-be-gay-in-east-asia/