tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-264226589944705290.post6281177845784179948..comments2023-11-05T03:45:25.001-08:00Comments on God Plays Dice: more fun with sexual meansMichael Lugohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15671307315028242949noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-264226589944705290.post-2309520366180436332007-08-19T12:38:00.000-07:002007-08-19T12:38:00.000-07:00Whoops -- "uniform" was a bad word choice there. ...Whoops -- "uniform" was a bad word choice there. I didn't mean uniform in the technical sense. I should have said that I would guess the male distribution would be the one more likely to be divided into two separate peaks.<BR/><BR/>But, actually, an even simpler explanation is simply that the distribution is more skewed, and that's closer to my guess here: that the male distribution of sex partners per capita is more strongly negatively skewed, leading to a larger median than mean, and the female distribution is less skewed, not skewed, or skewed in the opposite direction. But that's a wild guess.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-264226589944705290.post-29401942910392299652007-08-19T11:52:00.000-07:002007-08-19T11:52:00.000-07:00I commented on your original post -- the explanati...I commented on your original post -- the explanation of two different peaks in the pattern of partners could apply exactly equally well to either men or women: the situations are completely symmetrical. The only difference is that one sex would have a larger peak in the group with a greater number of partners, whereas the other sex would have to have a greater peak in the group with fewer partners, in order to make the medians different. (I think you'd need more men in the promiscuous category, whereas you'd need more women in the less promiscuous category, to make it work out.) It could even be a combination of the two effects.<BR/><BR/>I would actually tend to suppose that the male distribution would be more like this and the female distribution more uniform, based very loosely on the evolutionary concept of differential investment and the differnce in mating patterns by sex that follow from it.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-264226589944705290.post-17464583816176775062007-08-18T22:50:00.000-07:002007-08-18T22:50:00.000-07:00Wow, seriously? They use that rough a scale in th...Wow, seriously? They use that rough a scale in the actual study? No wonder nobody takes social scientists seriously.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com