Over the weekend the New York Times noticed that some sex stats simply didn’t add up:
In study after study and in country after country, men report more, often many more, sexual partners than women…But there is just one problem, mathematicians say. It is logically impossible for heterosexual men to have more partners on average than heterosexual women. Those survey results cannot be correct.
The researchers—bookish types no doubt—were probably unaware of the "Rule of 3" that governs the dating ethos. As the Times points out: "If asked, a man, believing that he should have a lot of partners, may feel compelled to exaggerate, and a woman, believing that she should have few partners, may minimize her past." The Rule of 3 states that when a woman gives her number of men she has slept with you should multiply it by three to determine how many men she really bedded. When a guy gives his number you should divide it by three. Men always want to sound like great swordsmen.
Unfortunately because this is a known algorithm, men often multiply their real number by six before giving it out. Now that I’ve floated this out there I’m wondering—should I multiply my number by 12?
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But Rock, multiplying zero by anything is still zero.
ROTFLMAO!! I had always wondered about this...