Lies are not statistics...

[patrickwonders]

I am reading Erotic Capital by Catherine Hakim. One of the author's contentions is that despite large amounts of propaganda to the contrary, men generally do want sex more often than women do. To this end, she cites some surveys that asked the question: Do you wish there were more sex in your current relationship? The numbers seem

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[eyelid]

You should keep reading it because this entry is funny and maybe you will inspired by this terrible book to write more funny entries.

[patrickwonders]

Yes, but I almost crashed our car... with me in it....

[patrickwonders]

I suppose there could be droves of Canadians entering buildings wherein they revoke their Canadian citizenship.

[pen_grunt]

Or there's some sort of Canadian genocide going on in said buildings. . .

[patrickwonders]

Maple syrup is people!

[pen_grunt]

In every psychology of human sexuality course I've taken, it's generally accepted (and taught) that self-reports (anonymous or no) of sexual partners are completely unreliable and thus are never used to draw conclusions of any sort.

They're ridiculously easy to manipulate with environment (i.e. even taking an anonymous survey as a group in one room will cause people to inflate/deflate their numbers along the lines of societal expectation) and social factors (i.e. showing a group of men a video about STD risk with multiple partners before a survey will cause them to deflate previously reported numbers as a group--even in anonymous surveys).

I'm unsure how one would get away with conflating number of partners (unreliably reported or no) with sexual desire. That's pretty bad.

Also: Canadians are very tricky. I'm not sure you're taking that into account. ;)

[patrickwonders]

Canadians are very tricky. Unfortunately, I had no statistics handy for how often Spaniards enter and exit buildings. C'est la vie.

[the_rebel_piper]

The number of books I have slogged through purely so that I can make fun of and-or dispute them would probably outnumber all the hypothetical Canadians in this post.

[firegrrl]

Brian: Maybe the numbers don't work because the very active women are too busy having sex to answer the survey.

Me: But then aren't the highly active men busy having sex, too?

Brian: They're multi-taskers.