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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 also asked ppl, "assuming your partner was totally chill with it, how much would you be interested in having romantic/sexual experiences with people besides your partner?" And then I asked them how much they thought their *partner* would be interested. Again, we see a gap! 2/

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A few more fun graphs: The full post, with more graphs, on my blog here: aella.substack.com/p/how-relation

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Smth is off with these 2 or I am so dumb? 👀

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not dumb, I prob flipped the sign, will fix when I get home

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Why do you write that gap grows over time, when it reduces?

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