[Repost] Global “Sexual Happiness” Survey: Mainland Chinese Men Have an Average of 3.5 Sexual Partners

http://news.qq.com/a/20071011/002018.htm
Ahem… I won’t paste the original text here; everyone can go look for it themselves… Of course, this kind of survey is still worth knowing about.
I just want to raise a question: take a look at this,

16. How many male partners do you have? (asked of women)

New Zealand (20.4) Global average (7.3) Hong Kong (4.1) Mainland China (2.3) India (1.8)

17. How many female partners do you have? (asked of men)

Austria (29.3) Hong Kong (14.2) Global average (13.2) Mainland China (3.5) 
Clearly, the survey shows that men generally have more opposite-sex partners than women do. What does that mean? Are men always more promiscuous than women? No. In fact, simple mathematical reasoning shows that in a closed system, if the numbers of men and women are roughly the same, then the average number of sexual partners for men and women should be the same—the logic is simple: whenever one man gains one more opposite-sex partner, it means that one woman has gained one more male partner. Naturally, if all men have an average of 3.5 female partners each, then all women should likewise have an average of 3.5 male partners each. But survey results consistently show that men have far more sexual partners than women. Such a discrepancy can only mean that there are some problems with the survey method, causing the results to deviate greatly from the actual values.
All I’m saying is: that’s statistics for you!

Latest comments

• luxin

  2007-10-11 20:20:24 Anonymous 124.17.17.52 

  There’s nothing wrong with statistics
  But in actual problems, there is almost none that satisfies the basic assumptions of statistics

• Yiwu

  2007-10-11 20:33:07 

  3.5? I’m more interested in 3.5~
  How could that be? By rights it should be less than 1, shouldn’t it……..
  That’s just what I think~ anyway. Looks like China too…
  Human beings are all the same.

• Gu Duo

  2007-10-11 21:28:04

  To Luxin: Of course there’s no problem with mathematical statistics, but statistics isn’t only mathematical statistics, is it? Moreover, I never said statistics itself has a problem; I only said its role is limited.
  To Unic: I’m afraid there are almost no places in this world where it would be less than 1… So I said, this kind of statistical data is still worth knowing about.

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