Editing Kinsey scale (section)

===Surveys and other studies===
There have been similar studies using a scale from 0 to 10. In such studies, the person would be asked a question such as "If 0 is completely gay and 10 is completely hetero, what is your orientation number?".<ref>Sexuality Now: Embracing Diversity (2006) – Janbell L Caroll</ref>

A study published in 2014 aimed to explore "[[sexual minority]] individuals' qualitative responses regarding the ways in which the Kinsey Scale [...] captures (or fail to capture) their sexuality."<ref name=":0" /> Participants completed the [Kinsey] scale and then were asked to respond to the following question: "In what ways did this scale capture or fail to capture your sexuality?"<ref name=":0" /> "A diverse sample of sexual minority participants, including individuals who (1) identify outside the traditional sexual orientation labels (i.e. [[Pansexuality|pansexual]], [[queer]], fluid, [[Asexuality|asexual]]) and (2) identify as [[transgender]], were recruited to complete an online questionnaire."<ref name=":0" /> Participants represented a convenience sample of 285 individuals who self-identified as [[non-heterosexual]].<ref name=":0" /> "Approximately one third of participants self-identified primarily as [[Monosexuality|monosexual]] (31.5%), whereas 65.8% identified as [[nonmonosexual]], and 2.8% identified as asexual. Monosexual participants represented those who self-identified as lesbian (18.5%) or gay (12.2%) or homosexual (0.8%). Nonmonosexual participants included bisexual (24.1%), pansexual (16.8%), queer (19.6%), and fluid (1.4%) participants. A small minority of participants identified as 'other' (3.8%)."<ref name=":0" /> Participants represented all regions of the continental United States.<ref name=":0" /> For this study, the use of "X" was intended to describe asexuality or individuals who identify as nonsexual.<ref name=":0" />

A study published in 2017 questioned how people who do not identify as heterosexual felt about their representation on the Kinsey scale.<ref name=":2">{{Cite journal|last1=Galupo|first1=M. Paz|last2=Mitchell|first2=Renae C.|last3=Davis|first3=Kyle S.|date=2018-05-01|title=Face Validity Ratings of Sexual Orientation Scales by Sexual Minority Adults: Effects of Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity|journal=Archives of Sexual Behavior|language=en|volume=47|issue=4|pages=1241–1250|doi=10.1007/s10508-017-1037-y|pmid=28733825|s2cid=4040021|issn=0004-0002}}</ref> The study takes a group of minority individuals who sexually identify as something other than heterosexual, and has them rate the Kinsey scale according to how well they feel represented by their value.<ref name=":2" /> Each group gave it a rating between 1 and 5. In the results, the group that rated the scale the highest was the group that identified as lesbian or gay with a rating of 4.66.<ref name=":2" /> The bisexual group rated it lower at 3.78, and the pansexual/queer group gave it the lowest rating at 2.68.<ref name=":2" /> Another trend that the study noted was that [[cisgender]] participants on average rated themselves higher on the scale than transgender participants (where the authors use ''transgender'' as a category to describe participants of various trans and non-binary identities).<ref name=":2" /> Namely, the cisgender participants average rating was 4.09 while the transgender participants was 2.78.<ref name=":2" /> The authors also found that trans and non-binary participants rated the Kinsey scale to be a less valid measure of their sexual orientation than the cisgender participants, due to its reliance on binary terminology.<ref name=":2" />