There are a lot of reasons why you would think that. I often refrain that it seems like everyone is seven inches or more while I’m stuck at the supposed average of six. There are several reasons for that though. First is that larger guys tend to be the ones who don’t mind broadcasting their size. So when you start getting into the 7+ category they are more likely to be the subject of conversation if not bringing it up themselves. Likewise I think many smaller guys tend to just not be as sexually engaged promiscuously as well. This goes especially true for the really small guys. There is also the issue of measuring from the top or the bottom. My average dick of 6” measures out as a ‘legitimate’ 7” if measured from the bottom. Then there is the last issue that guys lie about their size. I’ve had more than a couple supposed-8” be smaller than mine.
Now, because I have spent far more time on this than I care to admit I spent some time trolling the statistics of the Manhunt site for the DC metro area. That was where I noticed that everyone seemed to be 7” or more than me. According to a size study by that condom company that makes custom fitted condoms DC is also one of the statistically largest cities in the country. So one very depressed and non-busy day I decided to look into if it was possible that all these guys that claim to be 7” or more on the site could be statistically possible. So, in the DC area there were 18,808 members at the time I did these stats. Of those 18,000+ members only 2679 reported a size at all. That’s just 14% of the membership. Already you can see how skewed the stats are going to be since not even 20% of the members would self report a size, assuming that no one was lying or mis-measuring. So of the 14% that reported what did I find?
First, the stats were a typical Gaussian distribution. That was unexpected to me because I thought that most people would lie in the same way so create a skewed probability curve. The average of that curve was about 7.4” with a standard deviation still of about 1”. So the average of self reported guys, only 14% of the membership for DC was 6.5-8.5 inches. Because the curve shape doesn’t look too bad it led me to believe that most guys probably aren’t lying it’s just most average and small guys aren’t reporting at all. Here is where it gets interesting. If you take the typical curve shape from the Lifestyle condom company survey (which has average *and* standard deviation) and apply it to the 18,808 members, can you get that many of each size as reported? I did it in half inch increments from 3” up to 12”. It turns out that there were statistically far more members in each bin than had reported except the 9”. Even the 8.5” category with 234 self-reported members statistically had up to 282 members. Even in the case of the 9” category we are talking about a difference of 124 self-reported and 94 possible.
I guess that’s the long-winded way of saying, it’s probably an issue of self reporting not that the actual statistics are towards larger guys. All that said I still don’t feel average…lol…but in all probability I am.
