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Now 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 do
by throwaway0a5e 5y ago
Now 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.