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Distributions of number of sexual partnerships have power law decaying tails and finite variance

Fredrik Liljeros, Christofer R. Edling, H. Eugene Stanley, Y. Aberg, Luis A. Nunes Amaral

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Abstract

In a recent paper, James Holland Jones and Mark Handcock re-analyze two of the four datasets comprising a database, first analyzed by us, which records the number of distinct sexual partners for Swedish men and women. We argue that the claims of Jones and Handcock can be interpreted in a misleading fashion.

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cond-mat.dis-nnDisordered Systems and Neural Networks cond-mat.stat-mechStatistical Mechanics

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  1. Income Inequality: Empirical View 1 comment

    • Why do you think it's rare? Sweden is certainly a society of sexual inequality: http://arxiv.org/pdf/cond-mat/0305528.pdf Various studies on social networks have shown that virtually every society has high friendship inequality. Maybe friendships also don't generate happiness?…

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