He's the best golfer ever, and if your standards for "horrible human being" are "cheated on your wife" than about 85% of the male population are horrible human beings.
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Erm not even close. More like 20%.
The 20% figure refers to the percentage of married men who "...report cheating on their spouses." That's not the same thing as the percentage who have cheated, period. There was a 2008 New York Times article that addressed this issue, asking its readers: "If you cheated on your spouse, would you admit it to a researcher?" I don't think I would unless I had gotten caught--instinctively it seems best to have as few people know as possible.
The 15-25% range (depending on the gender of the respondents) is pretty consistent across many studies and strikes me as probably quite accurate. I'm no expert on how this research is conducted, but it's not like they're just going up to people in the streets and asking them, I'm sure they have some standards of selecting participants and conducting the surveys in ways to draw out as many honest answers as possible. It's a number we'll never know exactly, but I've been very skeptical of the inflated adultery numbers that I sometimes hear, and I say that as someone with no real interest in marriage so I don't think it's that I'm being too trusting or optimistic.
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