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I asked ~14,000 people if they'd cheated in their relationship, and if their partner had cheated. Here's a graph of (straight) relationships over time, showing the gap between people's actual cheating rates and the average guess of if their partner has cheated. 1/

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I find it very surprising that people are MORE likely to cheat the longer the relationship is.

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how could the likelihood possibly go down over time, every 15 year relationship is a 14 year relationship but one year later, and so on

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the survey only measured active relationships; in a world where cheating resulted in a breakup 2 years later, the longest relationships would have the lowest rate of cheating.

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alright, thank you for the explanation