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It’s not the size of the ship but the motion of the ocean – but that doesn’t stop some men claiming their tugboat is more of a Titanic.

Illustrating that, someone has gone through studies and compared the difference between what men said about their own penises, and what researchers actually recorded.

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Lukas, a tech blogger, is a data enthusiast and decided to crunch the numbers on various penis studies.

He found that across the world, men probably can’t be relied on when it came to estimating their own penis size.


They were all biased to telling researchers their junk was bigger than it actually was, whether that was to try to impress the scientists or because they really believed it.

Using a data compiling the results of penis size studies, he plotted the answers men gave compared to what the researchers actually found.



Posting on Reddit’s Data Is Beautiful, he insisted he wasn’t obsessed with penises but was just a graph enthusiast (‘To repeat: I don’t care about your dicks. I only care about clicks plotting data.’ Sure.)

This is what he found:

Click to enlarge (Picture: worldpenis.tadaa-data.de)

The green shows what researchers recorded, while the orange shows what men claimed (flaccid on the left and erect on the right).

According to the analysis, men were overestimating their penises by up almost an inch on average when erect.

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The graph has gone viral, featured in national papers and on the front page of the Data Is Beautiful forum he created it for.

As Lukas is an amateur in the field of penis analysis and made the graph for fun, he admits ‘the data is not all equally robust’ as he took it from a website which compiled statistics including SurveyMonkey results as well as lab condition tests.

But as a general trend, most people won’t be surprised to hear that many men give themselves a little extra.

Well, today a lot of people on the internet asked me about my penis. I really brought that one on myself, I see that. — jemsu (@Jemus42) December 14, 2016