Men dramatically overestimate the size of their penises

It’s not the size of the ship but the motion
of the ocean – but that doesn’t stop some
men claiming their tugboat is more of a
Titanic.


Illustrating that, someone has gone
through studies and compared the
difference between what men said about
their own penises, and what researchers
actually recorded.
Lukas, a tech
blogger, is a data
enthusiast and
decided to crunch the
numbers on various
penis studies.
He found that across
the world, men
probably can’t be relied on when it came to
estimating their own penis size.
They were all biased to telling researchers
their junk was bigger than it actually was,
whether that was to try to impress the
scientists or because they really believed
it.
Using a data compiling the results of penis
size studies, he plotted the answers men
gave compared to what the researchers
actually found.
Posting on Reddit’s Data Is Beautiful, he
insisted he wasn’t obsessed with penises
but was just a graph enthusiast (‘To
repeat: I don’t care about your dicks. I only
care about clicks plotting data.’ Sure.)
The green shows what researchers
recorded, while the orange shows what
men claimed (flaccid on the left and erect
on the right).
According to the analysis, men were
overestimating their penises by up almost
an inch on average when erect.
The graph has gone
viral, featured in
national papers and
on the front page of
the Data Is Beautiful
forum he created it
for.
As Lukas is an
amateur in the field of penis analysis and
made the graph for fun, he admits ‘the
data is not all equally robust’ as he took it
from a website which compiled statistics
including SurveyMonkey results as well as
lab condition tests.
But as a general trend, most people won’t
be surprised to hear that many men give
themselves a little extra.