Okay, say Robert has sex with Mary and Sue. Now, he's had sex with two people. So, that's one person for both Mary and Sue. Now, everyone is supposed to have two partners (because we're doing the 2 column), so Mary has also had sex with Jimmy and Sue has also had sex with George. Tha'ts 4, not 3, unless we make a huge assumption that Mary and Sue have actually had sex with the same guy, in which case 3 is the correct number instead of 4.
So it appears that the table is making the assumption that everyone is having sex with the same people. Now, I've seen this occur, and was properly horrified by it I might add, but I don't know if that's an accurate representation of most situations.
I have to say the algorithms are quite unwieldy if you don't do that. Hmmm, I'll work on it later when it isn't 4am and I can actually think or something.
By the way, this is assuming we don't go two degrees of separation, by which I mean that we don't count the partners of someone's partners. If you start doing that it really gets unwieldy. Of course, you can go back and say that half of the people haven't had their second partner yet, because everyting isn't occurring simultaneously, but... um... I should go to sleep now.
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But then again, you're right, it doesn't really add up completely. Hmm.
Oh well, I've never been a math fan. The point is, everyone should go get tested.
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So it appears that the table is making the assumption that everyone is having sex with the same people. Now, I've seen this occur, and was properly horrified by it I might add, but I don't know if that's an accurate representation of most situations.
I have to say the algorithms are quite unwieldy if you don't do that. Hmmm, I'll work on it later when it isn't 4am and I can actually think or something.
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