What do you mean, correlation isn't causation?

[elfs]

Creativity Determines Sexual Success

"It could also be that very creative types lead a bohemian lifestyle and tend to act on more sexual impulses and opportunities, often purely for experience's sake, than the average person would. Moreover, it's common to find that this sexual behaviour is tolerated in creative people. Partners, even long-term ones, are less likely to expect loyalty and fidelity from them."

Damn, I'm behind on my quota or something. Either that or I'm losing braincells.

Comments

[mothball-07.livejournal.com]

The average number of sexual partners for professional artists and poets was between four and ten, compared with a mean of three for non-creative types.

Elfs: Damn, I'm behind on my quota or something.

Uhmmmmm.... I *really* don't think so.

[Still boggling at "the average number was between four and ten..."]

[elfs.livejournal.com]

Oh, I see. They don't mean "at the same time"!

[pixel39.livejournal.com]

I also suspect the term 'average' is referring to lifetime, rather than weekly.

[fallenpegasus]

I don't think I've had four at the same time...

I've had ten on the same bed, does that count?

I know my lifetime total, but I ain't saying it here.

[mundens.livejournal.com]

Yeah that's what i was thinking. If they mean "lifetime" then the average of a "normal" pesron being only 3 seems rather low. As I commentd elsewhere on the same subject, that means I'd have had my "normal quota" before I left high school!

[phred1973.livejournal.com]

Pervscan picked this apart, also... the findings were... interesting. Here:

http://www.livejournal.com/users/pervscan/100195.html

[mothball-07.livejournal.com]

Thank you. "average between" was really bothering me. (Old math geek.)

[sweetjannette.livejournal.com]

Hi! I think that phase: "Partners, even long-term ones, are less likely to expect loyalty and fidelity from them" generally is not quite right. Because people who know each other for a long time can understand each other without a lot of words and explanations.