Calculate the % of hypocrites -- it's rampant!

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Definitions of hypocrite on the Web:

  1. a person who professes beliefs and opinions that he or she does not hold in order to conceal his or her real feelings or motives

  2. someone who does not “practice what they preach’; someone who pretends to live by a set of values, but in fact does not

  3. deceptive, just pretending to be good.

A May Gallup poll found that 92 % of Americans said it is morally wrong for married men or women to commit adultery, or have any extramarital sex.

Kinsey found half of married men reported having an affair and 25% of married women had an affair before turning 40 years old.

If these statistics are valid, calculate the number of hypocrites in the USA (or give a low/high estimate).

Billy

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High estimate: 100%

Low estimate: 100%

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I find that difficult to believe, since there WERE like 8% who do not state any problem with cheating …

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Are we only allowed to use these statistics? Or are we allowed to use other pieces of data as well?

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No! Nothing else! I have already given you more than enough information to solve this problem.

We’ll have none of that thread jacking here!

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Billy, I’m afraid we are missing some information.

We need to know the percent of people who are married in the US, at the very very least. With the information you’ve given, it’s impossible to calculate! It could be anything!

Well, not anything…

Low estimate: 0% (If there are either no married couples in the US, or if all of the ones that did cheat where the 8% that said it was ok).

High estimate: 37.5% (If EVERYONE in the united states was married, and all of the people that cheated had previously said it’s wrong. Sorry, I calculated this with the assumption that the United States is composed of 50% females and 50% males. Perhaps I shouldn’t have… as you didn’t mention it.)

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if you assume that there is 1 man:1 woman then you get 34.5% of Americans are hypocritical.

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You are also assuming that 100% of Americans are married.

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Regarding extramarital activity, a hypocrite is anyone, married or single, who SAYS adultery is wrong, but is likely to commit adultery.

We cannot predict that someone specific like Benjamin or Aed will commit when they get married, but we can predict that approximately 25% of married women will commit adultery before age 40, and 50% of married men.

SO, if Harper, John Childs, John Foss and Raphael were in a room together, odds are TWO of them had an affair.

If 4 married women are in a room together, odds are 1 of them had or will have an affair before she turns 40.

8% say adultery is NOT a moral wrong.

Calculate.

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Bugger your data and ‘facts’, all people are hypocrites.

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speak for yourself.

The governor impeached Bill Clinton over Monica, which makes him a very big hypocrite than those who said “To err is human, to forgive divine.”

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^

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Wow! You have a very broad definition of pretending to be GOOD!

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I though Childs was single? Did I miss something?

Did the survey verify in any meaningful way that each respondent had a working, meaningful definition of what a moral wrong is?

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X = 2Y or is it Y = 2X

One possibility here is that women who have affairs have twice as many as the men with whom they are playing horizontal squash.

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OoooOOoo. Good one!

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But men are twice as likely to be hypocrites regarding extramarital affairs.

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In the room together??? Ew. I highly doubt it.

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Can you imagine you, me, Raphael, and Jeremy in a room together?

Is it hypocrisy to claim you love animals yet eat them?

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is a hypocrite someone who calls for Clinton’s resignation over Lewinski, yet has an affair.