11/4 I'm reading some men's magazine that claims that men have twice as
many partners as women. That is fine except they didn't have any
reference and didn't explain how they conducted their survey.
I think it's totally flawed. Suppose there are 10 men and 10 women
in some planet (50/50 equal sex distribution), and 1 man has sex
with 10 female partners (the other 9 are hermits) and each women
has sex with that 1 male partner, then ON AVERAGE, wouldn't each
person have just one heterosexual partner? And if you change the
numbers, in the end, ON AVERAGE, it'll still be the same? Do you
see something wrong fundamentally with that claim? Few factors
that may contribute to the flaw:
1) Men inflate data, women deflate
2) Men have sex with lots of hookers but the survey doesn't ask the
hookers, driving the average up
3) Gay sex included in the survey
4) The survey reports MEDIAN, not average
What do you think is the more likely factor?
\_ The answer is that journalists don't understand the most basic
math and in the case of this survey they're just repeating what
they think they heard someone else say. There are few people on
the planet less educated or less intelligent than the typical
journalist.
\_ There are a few women who have a lot of partners. They aren't
necessarily hookers and the only one using the word average is you.
\_ Since he didn't provide a url for the survey you have no idea
if the survey uses the word "average" or why he's using that
word. From OP's use of the word, it makes sense that the
survey or more likely the reporters who munged the report on
the survey used the word.
\_ Maybe he needs to tell us what it said then. |
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