Kindly comments on 2012 Survey Results

[Kindly]

Would it be more surprising to find people that prefer poly relationships, but only have one partner and aren’t looking for more, than to find people that prefer mono relationships, but have no partners and aren’t looking for any?

Among those with firm mono/​poly preferences, there are 15% of the former (24% if we also include people that prefer poly, have no partners, and aren’t looking for more) and 14% of the latter.

[Kindly]

Also, roughly ²⁄₇ of people that prefer poly are single, while roughly ³⁄₇ of people that prefer mono are.

[thomblake]

Thanks, computer!

[Kindly]

Oh, I forgot to answer your actual question. Slightly over ²⁄₃ of people that prefer poly have 0 or 1 partners.

Edit: Although I guess this much was evident from the data if we assume that people that prefer mono won’t have 2 or more partners. I guess the group that doesn’t have a firm mono/​poly preference (which I ignored entirely) could confuse things a bit.

[thomblake]

Also, roughly ²⁄₇ of people that prefer poly are single, while roughly ³⁄₇ of people that prefer mono are.

Slightly over ²⁄₃ of people that prefer poly have 0 or 1 partners.

So, people that prefer mono are more likely to have their preferred number of partners, but people who prefer poly have more partners.

[DaFranker]

Would it be more surprising (...)?

Not by that much, but yes, I suppose a tad more.

Thanks for clearing this up.