Sure, you talk a good game, but, in reality...

  Well, if that's the case, a couple of those women musta been pretty friggin' busy. Lovers and public health officials want an answer to the following question: How many opposite-sex partners have you had in your lifetime? The answer, statisticians say, ought to be the same, on average, for any large group of men and women. But most surveys in the United States, the United Kingdom and other nations find that men report two-to-four times as many sexual partners as do women.

Are men lying to inflate their sexual reputations? Of course they are. Are women lying to downplay their sexual experience? Of course they are.  Most men and women don’t intentionally misrepresent their sexual histories, he maintains. Instead, studies show that male-female differences in the methods used to estimate the number of partners one has had is the major reason for the discrepancy.

Women are more likely to rely on enumeration. They tend to say, 'I just know,' and if you ask them to explain how they know, they say, well, there was John, Tom, etc. This is a strategy that typically leads to underestimation. 

 

Men are twice as likely to use rough approximation to answer the question. And rough approximation is a strategy known to produce over-estimation. So, in other words, the guys are full shit, and so are the girls. And there you are...