sex league tables

[W. Kiernan]

Carrol Cox wrote:
> 
> Doug Henwood wrote:
> >
> > New York Post - November 27, 2002
> >
> > 'SEXIEST' NATIONS
> > By BILL HOFFMANN
> >
> >
> > As far as one-night stands are concerned, 50 percent of those quizzed
> > have had at least one. Men are also more likely than women to have a
> > one-night fling - 54 percent compared to 42 percent.
> >
> 
> In an NYRB review Richard Lewontin pointed out that this discrepancy
> needs to be accounted for.

What needs to be accounted for?  For example, of a sample of a hundred
men and a hundred women, imagine 40 men had one of these one-night
affairs with one woman and 14 with two different women, while 16 women
had the same kind of encounters with one man and 26 women with two
different men.

That adds up with no logical necessity for anyone to have lied.  Of
course I also believe that _everyone_ who responds to questionnaires and
polls about topics like that are all lying their asses off; at least I
would.

Yours WDK - WKiernan at concentric.net