Data on sexual partners by gender shows difference in variance. Requesting comments on its statistical significance.

mutualaid · 2013-10-02T17:55:44+00:00

men in general have a larger 'spread' of lifetime sexual partners as compared to women, and this is reflected in the six studies this references as well as the cdc data collected on these topics. women's lifetime partners are more tightly clustered around the median.

mutualaid · 2013-10-02T17:44:43+00:00

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2013-10-02T20:07:28+00:00

Will somebody who paid attention during Stats 101 have a look at the Britain 1992 numbers and correct me if I'm wrong. For men, the mean number of sexual partners was around 10, and the variance is 6.5K = around 80 squared. That's a scarily skewed distribution, right? Men with zero to twenty sexual partners can have a squared difference from the mean of no more than 100, but the average squared difference is 6.5K, which means that the right tail of the distribution is having an awful lot of sex.

To pick out round figures, suppose 1% of men had 1000 sexual partners and the rest had a negligible number of sexual partners. Then the mean would be 10 and the variance would be a bit less than 10K. That's not all that far off those UK figures. The variance isn't that crazy for the rest of the surveys, so maybe the Rolling Stones were participants in the 1992 survey.

Here's another example. The basketball player Wilt Chamberlain reputedly slept with 20000 women. Suppose they surveyed 50000 men, 49999 of whom had a negligible number of sexual partners and one of whom was Wilt Chamberlain. Then the mean would be 0.4 and the variance would be 8000. Again, the variance isn't too far off the UK 1992 figures. So it seems that the variance can be very influenced by outliers.

Title	Data on sexual partners by gender shows difference in variance. Requesting comments on its statistical significance.
Author	tiftik
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Date	October 2, 2013 4:58 PM UTC (12 years ago)
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