Opinion of Tiger Woods

[Grumpier Than Uncle Joe]

I don't think there is any real doubt he's a horrible person.  Great for the game of golf though.

[Bootes Void]

Adulterer so HP

[Progressive Pessimist]

Great golfer, flawed person. There are worse people than him though, and I am not excusing his philandering while saying that, don't get me wrong.

I should also say that while I feel bad that he got injured the wall-to-wall coverage when it happened was a bit much though. There were far more important things happening in the world than that.

[LBJer]

Great golfer, flawed person.

Who isn't "flawed"?

[Progressive Pessimist]

Great golfer, flawed person.

Who isn't "flawed"?

Sure. But he is flawed relative to his status as a legendary sports figure.

[Chancellor Tanterterg]

HP

[DaleCooper]

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.

FF

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. 

[LBJer]

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.

FF

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. 

Ultimately, I don't think it really matters.  Whatever one's opinion on the morality of adultery, when somebody says that doing it makes someone a horrible person, I think that either they have an amazing lack of perspective, or they're a hypocrite like the Republicans were with Bill Clinton.