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- From: tlode@nyx.cs.du.edu (trygve lode)
- Subject: Re: What do you Am men think about Am wome
- Message-ID: <1992Nov23.232611.16994@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu>
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- Date: Mon, 23 Nov 92 23:26:11 GMT
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- In article <By4p3x.Hw0@access.digex.com> huston@access.digex.com (Herb Huston) writes:
- >
- >Well, I might have found a possible "explanation" for the 90-second figure.
- >It seems that Kinsey published a statistic of 75% of all men in 2 minutes or
- >less. It seems plausible that some bozo would multiply .75 by 2 minutes and
- >convert the result to 90 seconds.
-
- Either that or 90-seconds was the median value from that dataset; confusion
- between the meanings of mean and median is so common that you'd have to
- expect somebody to report a median value as the "average."
-
- > Masters and Johnson and other researchers
- >dispute Kinsey's result as being too brief. On the other hand, I could see
- >that M&J's technique (observation instead of interviews) might lead to longer
- >durations.
-
- I could see that; on the other hand I wonder how accurate people are at
- timing themselves at that particular activity--I know that I've been known
- to lose track of the time often enough. (Speaking for myself, I've never
- been in the habit of making much use of the clock at such times and the
- only time I really have a very good idea is if we've decided to use some
- background music and I realize that I'm listening to the CD for the nth
- time and get an urge to change it.)
-
- Trygve
-