We missed it. World Statistics Day.

[Handley_Page]

How average is your sex life?
Bags of bonking (and other) data show normal is relative

Statistics can also shine a light on some of the more intriguing aspects of our lifestyle. For starters, there is the Durex annual sex survey which, despite some major methodological flaws, has a growing reputation as providing a regular insight into our sexual well-being across the globe.

Back in 2003, Durex revealed that people have sex an average of 127 times a year and that three-quarters of those polled are happy with their sex lives. The survey also revealed that Eastern Europeans (Hungarians, Bulgarians, and Russians) are the most sexually active at an average of 150 sexual encounters a year – although Russians were also cited as the least happy - while those living in Thailand, China, and Vietnam were the most contented with their sex life.

Americans "came" low on the frequency list in 2003. The average US adult had sex 118 times a year, according to the survey. Forty-eight per cent of women admitted to faking an orgasm.

Updated results can be found on a nifty roll-over application on Durex’s website, which suggests some change. Those least satisfied with their sex lives appear to be the Japanese, closely followed by the French. The UK does not fare brilliantly on either the frequency or satisfaction results.


The full article can be found at:-

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/10/25/love_life_of_the_average_brit_on_statistics_day/

 

[JackLuis]

How average is your sex life?
Bags of bonking (and other) data show normal is relative

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Americans "came" low on the frequency list in 2003. The average US adult had sex 118 times a year, according to the survey. Forty-eight per cent of women admitted to faking an orgasm.

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I'm wouldn't be surprised if someone had sex 300 times, 14% of the time WITH an woman.

 

[harding]

Well...

We missed it. World Statistics Day.

what are the odds on that!

 

[TE999]

We missed World Statistics Day? That figures.

 

[oggbashan]

There are lies, damn lies and statistics.

Who believes any of them?

Og

 

[TheeGoatPig]

Hmm... 118 times in one year for some, and 8 times over fifteen years for me... I want to go home and cry now

 

[dr_mabeuse]

I don't think much of their poll. First of all, as that doctor noted, the sample is confined to people who use the internet. But more than that, the sample is confined to people who use the internet and are interested in taking a sex survey, which already suggests that they're not entirely satisfied with their sex lives and want to know how they stack up.

There's a well-known error built into self-surveys of this or any type. In statistics it's known as the voluntary response bias, and it says that the majority of people who respond to a voluntary survey will be those with the strongest feelings about the subject, and those feelings will usually be negative. People use surveys to complain a lot more than they do to endorse. So the results of almost any voluntary survey are meaningless.

 

[oggbashan]

I don't think much of their poll. First of all, as that doctor noted, the sample is confined to people who use the internet. But more than that, the sample is confined to people who use the internet and are interested in taking a sex survey, which already suggests that they're not entirely satisfied with their sex lives and want to know how they stack up.

There's a well-known error built into self-surveys of this or any type. In statistics it's known as the voluntary response bias, and it says that the majority of people who respond to a voluntary survey will be those with the strongest feelings about the subject, and those feelings will usually be negative. People use surveys to complain a lot more than they do to endorse. So the results of almost any voluntary survey are meaningless.

There is another 'well-known error' - people lie about their sexual experiences. If a sexual survey is conducted of married couples, the male responses on frequency will usually be significantly greater than the female ones. Either the men are often copulating with partners other than their wives, or one partner (or both) are lying.

Og

 

[harding]

Or...

the male responses on frequency will usually be significantly greater than the female ones

Probably the woman had gone to sleep - that might account for the discrepancy.