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I work with a very large-scale UK survey that roughly covers the boomer generation: people born 1940-1970. Take a moment to guess the median lifetime number of
by dash2 5y ago
I work with a very large-scale UK survey that roughly covers the boomer generation: people born 1940-1970. Take a moment to guess the median lifetime number of sexual partners.
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It's 3. Other people have less sex than you think.
- throwaway0a5e 5y agoNow tell us the mean, mode and standard deviation, show us the 25th and 75th percentiles and break all those stats out by gender. Paints a different picture doesn't it? There's a bell curve but the shape of the bell and the length of the tails can really add up to a lot of area not near the middle.
- dash2 5y agoActually the median is 3 for both sexes. Yes, of course there are some outliers who have (or report) very many partners.
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- FabHK 5y agoInterestingly, the average must be the same for men and women (assuming equal numbers and considering only sex between one man and one woman), by construction. But that does not hold for the median necessarily.
- brummm 5y agoThe number of partners does in no way tell you much about the amount of sex people have. A person could have a single partner their whole life but bang every day. Compare that to a person who hooks up with a new person once every two weeks. The first person has 14 times more sex than the second but the number of partners would paint a very different picture.
- xxs 5y ago> The first person has 14 times more sex One time a day only - here lies the problem.
- carlmcqueen 5y agoWhy would only having been with three people change how much sex you have had?
- TigeriusKirk 5y agoI'm really skeptical that holds up on the later part of that interval.