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I've had significantly more female friends cheated on than male friends, but I dont know how accurate that is. In the grand scheme of things it doesn't matter what your sex is, you're still a shitty person if you're a cheater.

I've had significantly more female friends cheated on than male friends, but I dont know how accurate that is. In the grand scheme of things it doesn't matter what your sex is, you're still a shitty person if you're a cheater.

I suppose the bottom-line is this: Once you have been cheated on, it doesn't matter what the statistics say about who cheats more. What matters is, the one you love cheated on you.

I suppose the bottom-line is this: Once you have been cheated on, it doesn't matter what the statistics say about who cheats more. What matters is, the one you love cheated on you.

36,

I think you have hit the nail on the head.

Another poster commented that they have never contributed to any poll or survey on infidelity, and yet survey after survey confidently projects the results of a small test group onto wider society.

Unless you ask every person in a country, and every person in that country tells the 100% honest truth, no survey paints the true picture of its subject matter.

I always used to laugh when people quoted the result of some survey or other which said, "On average, men think about sex every twelve seconds".

I started thinking about that 'fact' - which encroached on the time I should have been thinking about sex - and I realised that although sex did cross my mind from time to time during the day, it needed some kind of trigger or reason to make that happen. And even then, it might be no more than seeing an attractive woman in the office and thinking, "She's cute", and nothing more than that.

So if I, on average, thought of sex four or five times in a day (rather than a minute!), there had to be an awful lot of dribbling sex-crazed knuckle-draggers out there who were thinking of sex every second of every day (24/7) to produce an average figure of once every twelve seconds.

So where are all of those guys? Jail, mostly, I suppose.

So really, what do statistics prove?

If you are on a plane, spinning towards the ground out of control, at alarming speed, is it any comfort to know that statistics prove that air travel is safer than taking a bus?

If I was simultaneously married to every woman in America (how could I afford all those rings???), perhaps I could draw some comfort from thinking that although twenty-percent of my many millions of wives were likely to be having affairs, they were greatly outnumbered by the percentage who were not.

Imagine that; the ultimate harem! Oh, but my life would not be worth living if I forgot just one anniversary out of all those millions! And then there would be all those birthday cards...

I think the statistics prove that I cannot possibly marry every woman in a country, so the only one that matters is the one that I might marry. And statistically speaking, 100% of her is either going to cheat or stay faithful.

And no matter what may have been done to me, I am proud that 100% of me has never cheated. Even though I have never taken part in a survey on the subject!

[This message edited by M1965 at 5:22 PM, October 31st (Thursday)]

Once you have been cheated on, it doesn't matter what the statistics say about who cheats more. What matters is, the one you love cheated on you.

Amen! No poll can be 100% accurate for a range of reason and frankly I dont care who cheats more. The fact that my WH cheated, multiple times, is what matters. The husbands and boyfriends of those woman only care about their SO cheating.

I always used to laugh when people quoted the result of some survey or other which said, "On average, men think about sex every twelve seconds".

I started thinking about that 'fact' - which encroached on the time I should have been thinking about sex - and I realised that although sex did cross my mind from time to time during the day, it needed some kind of trigger or reason to make that happen. And even then, it might be no more than seeing an attractive woman in the office and thinking, "She's cute", and nothing more than that.

So if I, on average, thought of sex four or five times in a day (rather than a minute!), there had to be an awful lot of dribbling sex-crazed knuckle-draggers out there who were thinking of sex every second of every day (24/7) to produce an average figure of once every twelve seconds.

So where are all of those guys? Jail, mostly, I suppose.

I appreciate that. You just made work meetings way less creepy for me.

That 'every 12 seconds' probably comes from the time when teen-aged male baby boomers were surveyed....

They made up 52.7% of the population for a few years, so they skewed the stats.