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Seems pretty conclusive, right? It's not just popular belief. It's not just the media. Even the United States government believes that men are just inherently hornier than women.

There's only one slight problem:

That statistic is mathematically impossible. Any conclusion that the average lifetime sexual partners for heterosexual men and women is anything other than exactly even is mathematically flawed.

Let's take a sample population of five men and five women to keep things simple. Most of the studies seem to point to a small number of highly promiscuous men who skew the male number upward. So, let's assume we have one superstud male who's slept with all five women:

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To calculate the average, we add up the total partners every person has had and divide by 5 (the number of people in the population). Doing this, we find that both the male and the female average = 1, because the superstud's number is balanced out by the four dudes who get none.

OK, what if we nudge each guy's number up, so that we don't have four virgins. That seems more realistic, right?

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Sorry. Now, both averages = 1.8. The men's number goes up, but so does the women's.