Johan - that about sums up the she-bitch Coulter, who stands, unrelenting, in her use of the term.
My esteemed Prancing Pony,
My correlation to Six Sigma has to do with acceptable tolerances. Six Sigma is a continuous process improvement, narrowing the field of acceptable products. This is a plus/minus in how you look at it.
When it comes to products - it means highly repeatable, consistent products (though, not necessarily of BEST quality, but of a certain band of tolerance - a Big Mac is not 5* cuisine, but you KNOW what you're going to get when you walk into a Mickie D's world round.)
Acceptable language usage is similar - in my own, personal, definitions, I like a wide variety of (intelligent?!) discourse, and try to tolerate(mayhaps ENCOURAGE?!) a wide selection of vocabulary with which to express one's opinions/beliefs. Perhaps I extend to three "standard deviations" ("Sigma" = 1 Std Dev.) in latitude from the completely urbane norms. Over time, the use of certain words in specific circumstances exceed those bounds.
Now, here is where it gets dicey, and perhaps off topic, but related -
One(many) could de Facto apply this to the biologic/theologic spectrum as well.
Hence the extreme hate(?!) of all things homosexual by the extreme alleged theists - though some may consider them mostly ignorant.
All of this revolves around Pareto's Principle - which is an empirically observed feature of nature, and some (this author included) of God's Divine Presence. Simply put, the 80:20 law.
Pareto principle
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The term "Pareto principle" can also refer to Pareto efficiency.
The Pareto principle (also known as the 80–20 rule, the law of the vital few, and the principle of factor sparsity) states that, for many events, roughly 80% of the effects come from 20% of the causes.[1][2]
Business-management consultant Joseph M. Juran suggested the principle and named it after Italian economist Vilfredo Pareto, who observed in 1906 that 80% of the land in Italy was owned by 20% of the population; he developed the principle by observing that 20% of the pea pods in his garden contained 80% of the peas.[2]
It is a common rule of thumb in business; e.g., "80% of your sales come from 20% of your clients". Mathematically, where something is shared among a sufficiently large set of participants, there must be a number k between 50 and 100 such that "k% is taken by (100 − k)% of the participants". The number k may vary from 50 (in the case of equal distribution, i.e. 100% of the population have equal shares) to nearly 100 (when a tiny number of participants account for almost all of the resource). There is nothing special about the number 80% mathematically, but many real systems have k somewhere around this region of intermediate imbalance in distribution.[3]
If you look, and you don't have to look too closely, you will see that 80% of a given population fall within 3 Sigma (standard deviation) of the median or "norm" - that which defines "normal".
That includes virtually everything about us - including sexuality - with those things outside the Three Sigma boundaries, on either side, viewed as abnormal. From the extremely homosexual on one side to the extremely asexual on the other.
Inside the "normal" spectrum, the Absolute Median is a person of balanced heterosexuality, with empathy that extends to people of the same sex - in the case of men, our "female" side, and vice-versa for the ladies. One could argue multiple planes here - from fashion sense to mannerisms to sexual taste.
People are most comfortable "with their own kind". Those of a lesser ability to appreciate the variety of life/life styles out there abhor anything different. And they absolutely don't abide "them" having the same "right to life, liberty, and pursuit of happiness".
That overlays the Three Sigma to Six Sigma spectrum.
Sadly, the more polarized we become, the narrower the acceptably spectrum becomes.
Fine precision in Manufacturing is a good thing.
Not so much in nature - for it is the EXCEPTIONAL in nature that promotes evolution and change.
Hitler was all about narrowing the spectrum of variability in mankind - if you weren't a blue-eyed, blond of Aryan descent, you weren't what he wanted (he wasn't, either, since he had Jewish ancestry in his blood line.)
While we need to control manufacturing processes, and we need/want to control(subdue in the biblical sense) true genetic deformities, such as spina bifida, and similar, we do NOT want to limit the genetic variety of life in a major sense -we want to embrace it. That can and should include Gay people having surrogate parenting to propagate, too, if that is their desire.
I know, a bit off topic, but I think it goes to the heart of the matter.