Cheating Statistics USA 2024: Affair Rates, Men / Women

[speakercontrols]

The, "Nearly 75% of people have cheated" stat seems high but I suppose it depends on the definition & timeframes (cumulative?) right?

Cheating Statistics USA 2024: Affair Rates, Men / Women - iLuvSugar

explore cheating and infidelity statistics in the US and see what they say about people’s behavior. We assess data from Polly for a year ending in 2024.

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While infidelity may be a sensitive subject, it’s one that many of us face. In the US, studies revealed that in 2021, around 21% of respondents admitted to cheating on their partner, and this is nothing new.

Since the 1960s, infidelity has reportedly been on the rise, and it’s not set to disappear any time soon. To find out what America's attitude to infidelity currently looks like, we analyzed data from Polly to see who has cheated, who hasn’t, who they’re cheating with, where they are doing so, whether marriages have survived and why, and other interesting demographics.

Polly’s data surveyed a total number of 15,586,105 people in the US over the course of the year, ending on the 15th of May, 2024. Here’s what the statistics reveal.

Index

1. Nearly 75% of people have cheated
2. Over 60% of affairs are with married men
3. More than half of Americans cheat with people they meet at social events
4. One third of people cheated because of personal insecurities
5. Over 70% of marriages survive cheating
6. 64% of people cite commitment to working through as the reason their marriage survived
7. 45-54 Year olds cheat the most
8. Texas has the highest number of affairs
9. Women admit to having the most affairs
10. Average income earners have the most affairs
11. About the data

 

[Sonic Temple]

Very interesting read. Curiosity within the human race will always be there - and variety is the slice of life.

 

[Ahri]

Anyone else here not surprised by these numbers?

 

[LTO_3]

Anyone else here not surprised by these numbers?

+1. I was expecting some of those numbers to be higher.

LTO_3

 

[Forzafonz]

Anyone else here not surprised by these numbers?

Source of data used: The data used in this article was sourced from Polly, who created independent samples of a total of 15,585,105 people in the US posting on X, Reddit, and TikTok.
This is garbage data. People don't go on social media to post about average life. It's either: "Look at me i am doing great" or "Look at me i am about to break".

 

[Mr Deeds]

90% of men cheat the other 10% are liars

 

[lir2016]

Pretty surprised that 70% of marriages survive cheating. I thought that number would be much lower

 

[Telebass]

Pretty surprised that 70% of marriages survive cheating. I thought that number would be much lower

Higher than I imagined, too, but I expect with most marriages that survive cheating, both partners keep it quiet and don’t broadcast to any but a tight inner.circle, if even that. With marriages that don’t survive it’s a different story. Often anyone and everyone associated with the wronged party gets to hear about it.

 

[anonemouse]

90% of men cheat the other 10% are liars

5% lie, and the other 5% are unsuccessful but not for a lack of trying

 

[rhuarc29]

Source of data used: The data used in this article was sourced from Polly, who created independent samples of a total of 15,585,105 people in the US posting on X, Reddit, and TikTok.
This is garbage data. People don't go on social media to post about average life. It's either: "Look at me i am doing great" or "Look at me i am about to break".

Yeah, it's a bad idea to automatically trust "statistics" these days. You have to look at where the data came from, how it was collected, and how it was interpreted.

 

[kherg007]

Yeah, it's a bad idea to automatically trust "statistics" these days. You have to look at where the data came from, how it was collected, and how it was interpreted.

Maybe they cheated on their reporting of affairs too - lol

 

[Goodoer]

Anyone else here not surprised by these numbers?

I’m not surprised. I fully expect my wife to cheat (or has already). She gets excited by new things and she has all the free time in the world. The age range makes sense as I think Menopause is haunting in the background and women want some fun before that happens.

 

[dotdotdot69]

Book a hotel when a team of junior hockey players arrive and hangout with the hockey moms.

 

[speakercontrols]

Source of data used: The data used in this article was sourced from Polly, who created independent samples of a total of 15,585,105 people in the US posting on X, Reddit, and TikTok.
This is garbage data. People don't go on social media to post about average life. It's either: "Look at me i am doing great" or "Look at me i am about to break".

This is true. However, what is also true is that most of the surveys and academic social studies are there are somewhat close to bunk as well.

Social Science is WEIRD, and That’s a Problem.

How did you lose your virginity? Maybe it was in a romantic garden under a full moon with the scent of roses all around, in the arms of your one true...

slate.com

Western college students are not the best representatives of human emotion, behavior, and sexuality.

WEIRD is the phenomenon that plagues a lot of psychology and other social science studies: Their participants are overwhelming Western, educated, and from industrialized, rich, and democratic countries. They’re WEIRD. And not only are they WEIRD, they are overwhelmingly college students in the United States participating in studies for class credit. Thinking about the source of the data for a lot of hyped, overinterpreted psychology research puts the results into a whole new light.

 

[Goodoer]

If there is a female version of TERB, I’ll bet there is a thread of women screaming how bored they are. Just like us (except they don’t have to pay).

 

[GeeBee]

A philosophical question perhaps, but is how we define cheating changing? Before the internet age if you slept with someone other than your partner it was cheating. If you had a platonic dinner or conversation and made some emotional connection behind their back maybe it was a grey area.

Would we consider that cheating now? How about sexting, cyber sex, video chat with an onlyfans girl? If all these are cheating it’s no wonder the number has increased steadily.

How do TERBites define cheating?

 

[dotdotdot69]

I'd say it's cheating if emotion is involved, but I know others who disagree when it comes to things like online or texting/chatting. If someone is doing it to make money as a business then great. It's typically the conservative or religious types who won't give people like callgirls and such a chance.

 

[HotDogger]

Source of data used: The data used in this article was sourced from Polly, who created independent samples of a total of 15,585,105 people in the US posting on X, Reddit, and TikTok.
This is garbage data. People don't go on social media to post about average life. It's either: "Look at me i am doing great" or "Look at me i am about to break".

Unfortunately the uneducated masses will treat this study as irrefutable truth. Not surprising because most people suck at math and statistics.

 

[johnnyy]

that's interesting, both men and women are cheating

 

[superstar_88]

that's interesting, both men and women are cheating

You thought all women were peachy sweet and clean before this revelation?