I'm surprised that cuddling is rated more taboo than various actual acts of intercourse? I feel like I could do as much cuddling in public as I wanted when I w

I'm surprised that cuddling is rated more taboo than various actual acts of intercourse? I feel like I could do as much cuddling in public as I wanted when I was a teenager, but never attempted anything more extreme. Maybe they changed the definition of the word while I wasn't looking, though. I have a feeling that these are results that don't mathematically hold up if you did head-to-head comparisons. People are just making up a % taboo and they don't really mean it. I suppose if you consider the margin of error +/- 10% though, maybe it all works out. (This sort of thing always looks like sorting to me. There are two kinds of sorts you can do; a radix sort or a comparison sort. The radix sort, where we place everything in its correct position one at a time, requires O(n) questions of the survey respondents. The comparison sort, where you compare two options and pick the "less" option, seems more accurate to me, but requires O(n log n) questions of the respondents. It makes so much more sense to me, but nobody ever does it. That said, I'm not sure how you deal with inconsistencies and how to average out the data provided by multiple respondents. I know that election theory sort of covers this, but they seem to always pick methods that looks like my radix sort, with the hope that the results would be the same as the overall winner winning each pairwise election. If someone has an article that would make this all make sense to me, I'd love to read it. It's something I think about a lot but get stuck on.)