Pablo_Stafforini comments on 2013 Survey Results - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Pablo_Stafforini 19 January 2014 09:17:42AM *  0 points [-]

NUMBER OF CURRENT PARTNERS:

0: 797, 48.7%

1: 728, 44.5%

2: 66, 4.0%

3: 21, 1.3%

4: 1, .1%

6: 3, .2

Why is there no data for respondents who stated they had 5 partners?

Comment author: gwern 20 January 2014 01:40:05AM 0 points [-]

Presumably for the same reason there is no data on people with 7, 8, 9, 10...n partners: no one claimed to have them. Since there was only 1 person who claimed 4 partners, and 3 people who claimed 6, perfectly plausible that there simply was no such respondent.

Comment author: Pablo_Stafforini 20 January 2014 11:05:28AM 0 points [-]

"Five partners" was one of the options that respondents could pick. My assumption was that the survey results listed the number of respondents that picked each option, even if this number was zero.

Comment author: Pablo_Stafforini 19 January 2014 09:43:26AM 6 points [-]

I should have looked at the data set. The answer is that zero people reported having 5 partners.