They’d have to lie about who they slept with, and I expect the other person might have something to say about that if it was not true.
I wonder if they verified each claim from both sides.
Edit: it’s a scientific paper, so there’s no need to wonder!
In fig. 2, and in all discussions presented here, all romantic and sexual relationship nominations linking students are included, whether or not the nomination from i to j was reciprocated with a nomination from j to i.
Then it’s certainly mostly bullshit. Male students tend to massively exaggerate when they tell stories about how many sexual relationships they had.
Source: I was a male student.
These aren’t all sexual relationships. So if someone says “I had a crush on X”, maybe there would be a line. Even if X did not have a crush back. Maybe one date is enough for a line.
They’d have to lie about who they slept with, and I expect the other person might have something to say about that if it was not true.
I wonder if they verified each claim from both sides.
Edit: it’s a scientific paper, so there’s no need to wonder!
Oh, so there was no bullshit filter
Then it’s certainly mostly bullshit. Male students tend to massively exaggerate when they tell stories about how many sexual relationships they had. Source: I was a male student.
These aren’t all sexual relationships. So if someone says “I had a crush on X”, maybe there would be a line. Even if X did not have a crush back. Maybe one date is enough for a line.