taw comments on Sociosexual Orientation Inventory, or failing to perform basic sanity checks - Less Wrong

3 Post author: taw 16 September 2009 10:00AM

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Comment author: saturn 18 September 2009 10:33:10PM 0 points [-]

If such extreme female outliers really existed, at least some surveys would show number of partners for women being massively higher than for men, just by including one such person by chance.

But don't surveys generally throw out outlier responses?

Comment author: taw 19 September 2009 12:23:58AM 0 points [-]

It would be a stupid thing to do. In any case that 48-nation survey mentioned throwing away highest 1% of male responses, as supposed outliers, and nothing about throwing away any female responses, which is extremely incompatible with "female outliers" theory.