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Men Tend to Overestimate the Number of Sexual Partners they Have Had
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Men Tend to Overestimate the Number of Sexual Partners They've Had
A University of Alberta professor of psychology has learned men tend to overestimate the number of sexual partners they've had, and he's come up with some interesting theories to explain why they do this. Psychology professor Dr. Norman Brown said while some people might conclude this happens because "men are pigs," there is in fact, important information to be gathered from his survey of approximately 1,100 Albertans, who were asked to recall how many sexual partners they had had during their lives.
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Men Tend to Overestimate the Number of Sexual Partners they Have Had
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A University of Alberta professor of psychology has learned men tend to overestimate the number of sexual partners they've had, and he's come up with some interesting theories explain why the do this.
Psychology professor Dr. Norman Brown said while some people might conclude this happens because "men are pigs," there is in fact, important information to be gathered from his survey of approximately 1,100 Albertans, who were asked to recall how many sexual partners they had had during their lives.
"Some would say men overestimate the number of partners they have had because they are pigs and like to boast and brag about their conquests," Brown said.
"From my research over the last 20 years, I know there is much more to it than this," he said. Brown works in the area of cognitive psychology and is interested in how people acquire, organize, and utilize real-world knowledge (i.e., facts about the world learned through experience).
In 1999, together with research partner Dr. Robert Sinclair, Brown surveyed University of Alberta students on the same question about numbers of sexual partners and came up with similar results. In this more recent survey, conducted with the help of the U of A Population Research Laboratory, a cross section of heterosexual men and women throughout Alberta were asked how many sexual partners they've had in their lives. After they answered this question, they were asked how they came up the number they gave.
When asked the question, 'how many partners have you had in your lifetime?', two-thirds of women said they knew precisely and reported an average of 6.2. Men on the other hand were twice as likely to say they had no idea and on average guessed 11.9.
Brown said this result was most interesting.
"Every time a man has sex with a woman, a woman has to have sex with a man. So either there are some very lucky joes out there or someone is not getting their numbers right," Brown said.
By asking respondents how they came up with their number, Brown was able to work out what methods men and women were more likely to use when calculating the number of sexual partners.
He found that men were twice as likely as women to use a rough approximation method, while women were more likely to think about individual incidents and calculate the number this way. People who had had few sexual partners were the most likely to use the reasoning "I just know."
It remains, however, unclear as to how male overestimation could result in such a wide disparity in the reported number of lifetime sexual partners. Brown has three theories, none of which are very flattering to men. One is that men cannot be bothered to remember individual lovers. The next is that men are lazy and have not got the patience to think seriously when answering a telephone poll, and the third one is his 'Don Juan' theory that there might in fact be a number of men in Alberta who have been, in Brown's words, "lucky joes."
Brown said his findings have applicability in a number of areas, including strategies for dealing with people who engage in high-risk sexual behaviour.
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| Vivid Boy |
old news
so well anyways i was ing this chick up the ass the other day and her mom walked in on us and was like "OMG SHELLY!!!!!! WHAT ARE YOU DOING?!?!?!?!??!?! THATS NOT THE WAY TO SUCK A DICK"
in the meantime i got this call on my cell from Shelly's best friend louise, supposedly her and her friend marge were having a dick sucking competition and figured i would be a perfect judge. |
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| trancebrat |
tobias still needs a nap! :p
And Eric...well, Eric, you're just all ed up in the head. :wtf:
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| töbias |
| quote: | Originally posted by trancebrat
tobias still needs a nap! :p |
(Speaks to self) "I am not delusional".
Yes, they say lack of sleep will kill before lack of food, perhaps there is a personal message among medical jargon. |
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| trancebrat |
| quote: | Originally posted by töbias
(Speaks to self) "I am not delusional".
Yes, they say lack of sleep will kill before lack of food, perhaps there is a personal message among medical jargon. |
Then go to bed silly! :p |
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| Floorfiller |
| lets see...i can name all of my sex partners...i guess i'm a woman :wtf: |
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| ShadoWolf |
| does oral count? :gsmile: |
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| trancebrat |
| quote: | Originally posted by Floorfiller
lets see...i can name all of my sex partners...i guess i'm a woman :wtf: |
How would that make you a woman? :p I think those studies are BS. Most people aren't truthful anyways. I think a lot of women have been with more guys than they will admit to and a lot of guys claim to be with more women than they actually have. I am not talking about the people that post in here. I'm just generally speaking about the people that are being interviewed for those stupid studies. Some people say they have no idea because they don't want to admit to the truth. |
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| Genesis Evolved |
| Men lie.. sorry, "overestimate" because they don't want the world to know they're not getting any. Alpha male syndrome and all that. |
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| Boomer187 |
| quote: | Originally posted by trancebrat
How would that make you a woman? :p I think those studies are BS. Most people aren't truthful anyways. I think a lot of women have been with more guys than they will admit to and a lot of guys claim to be with more women than they actually have. I am not talking about the people that post in here. I'm just generally speaking about the people that are being interviewed for those stupid studies. Some people say they have no idea because they don't want to admit to the truth. |
well since this was an article online they didn't post the methods sections. There are ways to get around that untruthful answering, social desirability bias :wtf:.
What I find horrible with this is the reasoning behind it and how they came up with their finding. they said out of 1000 people in this one place the men said they had sex with more women and the women said they had sex with. Obviously they did not interview all sexual partners that someone in the study could have, so there could be huge differences.
to me you cannot measure how many people these dudes have slept with, so there is no way you can find out if they are over estimating or not. It is an untestable hypothesis therefore useless.
Now being the cognitive psychologist teh experimenter is, he could use his finding on how men estimate the number of partners as opposed to women and say that men are more likely to over esitmate if in fact their method sucks compared to women....
study is poop, and makes me more angry that crap studies like this get publicity. |
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