While amusing myself in another thread I invented a statistic with which to assert dominance over a young man. Since he is currently husbanding attractive sisters I’m sure the attempt will not destroy his self-confidence.
That being said, it occurred to me in the middle of it all that there actually is value in the statistic.
The statistic is PWA, or per woman average, it tracks the average number of children a man has with the women who bear him children. It separates those men who have small amounts of children with large amounts of women, ala Nelly, with men who husband fruitful women, ala Jim Bob Duggar.
Like all such stats it’s utility is limited. It doesn’t account for men whose fecundity is limited by factors other than their character or priorities for instance. Also, it doesn’t identify men who have had a large number of sexual partners but only fathered children with a few. It would also need to be modified for certain scenarios, for instance fPWA might account for significant stepchildren. My PWA is 4, my fPWA is 5.
The esteemed and inestimable @Keith Martin pioneered the use of baseball as a major source of analogy here but I propose to deepen the practice.
What other statistics should we be tracking to evaluate ourselves and our potential husbands for our daughters. For instance TNC, total number of children, would be an important stat to help give context to PWA. KOF, known one flesh failures, might be an interesting if somewhat unreliable statistic.
Help me out. What else can we track?
That being said, it occurred to me in the middle of it all that there actually is value in the statistic.
The statistic is PWA, or per woman average, it tracks the average number of children a man has with the women who bear him children. It separates those men who have small amounts of children with large amounts of women, ala Nelly, with men who husband fruitful women, ala Jim Bob Duggar.
Like all such stats it’s utility is limited. It doesn’t account for men whose fecundity is limited by factors other than their character or priorities for instance. Also, it doesn’t identify men who have had a large number of sexual partners but only fathered children with a few. It would also need to be modified for certain scenarios, for instance fPWA might account for significant stepchildren. My PWA is 4, my fPWA is 5.
The esteemed and inestimable @Keith Martin pioneered the use of baseball as a major source of analogy here but I propose to deepen the practice.
What other statistics should we be tracking to evaluate ourselves and our potential husbands for our daughters. For instance TNC, total number of children, would be an important stat to help give context to PWA. KOF, known one flesh failures, might be an interesting if somewhat unreliable statistic.
Help me out. What else can we track?
