Distributions of number of sexual partnerships have power law decaying tails and finite variance · HackerPapers discussionshttps://hackerpaper.kaipfister.de/p/cond-mat_0305528/Collected HN comments and submissions linking this paper.enMon, 02 Nov 2026 11:16:22 GMTDistributions of number of sexual partnerships have power law decaying tails and finite variance — mentioned by yummyfajitashttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10499314urn:hackerpapers:mention:cond-mat_0305528:10499314Tue, 03 Nov 2015 13:21:47 GMT<p>Why do you think it&#x27;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&#x27;t generate happiness? Unfortunately good studies are hard to come by - I&#x27;ve never actually seen any. In virtually all cases, anchoring effects drown out the signal. But as a thought experiment, consider two individuals. One individual is a nerd in a frat house, watching a bunch of bros get laid while he&#x27;s still a virgin. The other individual…</p><p><a href="https://hackerpaper.kaipfister.de/p/cond-mat_0305528/">Paper and discussion history</a>. A mention is not an endorsement.</p>cond-mat.dis-nn