Comment by jnt on Do men have more partners than women? · 2011-12-16T05:43:53.537Z · LW · GW

The median vs average comment sums it up. Imagine a society with one female prostitute who services all of the otherwise monogamous and mate-for-life males. In this society, the median for women is one, the median for men is two. Similarly, if we average while discarding the outliers we will see an asymmetric average.