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Are you denying trends and averages exist?

Considering they provided data about it, I don’t think so.

They’re suggesting that data (trends and averages) contradict your perception, which is mostly based on anecdata and your own feeling I imagine.

You should entertain that option, since that’s the whole point of looking at data.

That's not what the data shows. You can't compare lifetime partners of people who lived their full lives to teenagers. If you compare number of partners in the last year (prior to survey) then promiscuity had been steadily increasing since it began to be measured.

Maybe, but if this is what the OP is claiming... he should say so, instead of snarkily replying with rhetorical questions about the existence of trends and averages.

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