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Subject: Re: Selling Wedded Bliss (was Re: Ouch...)
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From: harley@argote.ch (Robert Harley)
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Gordon Mohr:
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>It was clear you were talking about averages. But it should
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>be equally clear that that isn't what people mean when they
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>use the word "promiscuity".
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Sigh.
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This sprung out of a report linked by Cindy about the promiscuity of
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female monkeys with males other than the alpha male, i.e, specifically
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not the tail end of the distribution. "By mating with as many
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extra-group males as possible, female langurs ensure [etc.]"
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>OK, then. Consider a population of 1,000,000. 500,000 men each
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>pair off with 500,000 women. Then, 1 man, let's call him "Wilt",
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>also has sex with the other 499,999 women
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This has never happened. Its relevance is nil.
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>Averages are useful, sure -- but much more so if called by their
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>actual name, rather than conflated with another concept.
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So I chose not to type "on average" explicitly in my post, since this
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is FoRK and one tends to assume that people have a clue.
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There is no disagreement between us, except that I am more interested
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in typical behaviour and you in extreme. Actually, you probably just
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had a bad day and felt like jumping down my throat for the hell of it.
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EOT, AFAIC.
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R
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