desh ([personal profile] desh) wrote2009-09-25 12:22 pm

TMI

OK, yeah, I'm actually curious. And it's been way too long since my last poll.

[Poll #1462446]
(If you take baths often enough that they affect the average, please feel free to count them as well.)

I read once that the average is 8 for men, 9 for women. I think most of my friends are around 4-5. Full disclosure: I'm at 6. Poll prompted in part by this advice column question and answer.

EDIT: Most interesting thing about these results so far, assuming I'm correct on my friends' gender identities, is that 35% of the men (5/14) shower over once a week, but only 5% (1/20) of the women do. And the rest of the data also skew way higher for men (mean of 7.1 vs. 5.1, with a std dev of 1.9 for each group). Clearly what I heard previously about the average being higher for women is way off among my friends.

[identity profile] fweebles.livejournal.com 2009-09-25 04:30 pm (UTC)(link)
Even if I don't quote-unquote "need" a shower, a shower is the best way for me to get wake up and motivated to actually be productive, so I have one virtually every day. Add onto that 1-3 extra showers a week post-soccer (when I'm doing soccer), and that probably averages out to 8-9 per week over the whole year.