Monday, September 23, 2013
No Wonder I'm Broke
A new study finds that sexually active people make more money.
And if you do it more than four times a week, you earn even more, the study shows.
"There is a monotonic relationship between the frequency of sexual activity and wage returns," Nick Drydakis, a senior economics lecturer at Anglia Ruskin University in England wrote in a paper for the International Journal of Manpower.
When people are having sex regularly, they're happier, stronger, eat better and exercise more, researchers have found.
The "Sex and the City" bed-hopping cliché notwithstanding, marriage seems to have a lot to do with it. "Married people, particularly men, earn higher wages than the non-married," Oswald said. "One possible explanation is that such people are sociable, stable people."
Conversely, a sexless marriage appears to be detrimental to a person's earning power. "Married men having no sex receive lower wages by 1.3 percent," Drydakis wrote, calling the amount "statistically significant."
Drydakis did have one caveat, which we'll call the gold-digger variable: In some cases, a better job or higher income could be the reason someone starts having more sex, rather than the other way around.
"Higher wages may increase the value and attractiveness of a person on the dating market; higher wages may also increase purchase of gifts that are thanked for via sex," the paper pointed out.
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Reports like this are so worthless. So 'making less' meant 1.3% in this study. I suspect that the accuracy of asking someone 'how often do you have sex' is EXTREMELY low, even in an official study. That would more than make a 1.3% gain insignificant due to potential for error in the stats.
I will go so far as to say that no survey ever taken in the history of mankind regarding how often someone has sex is accurate.
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