Lazy Reporting (or: Step Off My Breasts)

[rinue]

I'm tired of seeing news stories quote the statistic that 75% of women are wearing the wrong size bra. That's not a real statistic. You can tell it's made up, because what are the odds it would be a dead-on round number like that, and how would you collect the data. Answer: some bra-fitter somewhere estimated that around 3/4 of the women who ask for a fitting were wearing the wrong size -- so approximately 3/4 of the women who thought they were wearing the wrong size were in fact wearing the wrong size, because women are not idiots.

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[bevjunior]

for whatever minuscule amount it counts in this conversation as i do not have breasts, I can say from the perspective of someone who works with a fair number of breasts on a regular basis that there is a significant amount (probably, but perhaps not definitively, greater than 25%) of women who believe they are wearing the right size bra and would never, ever ask the sweet lady at JCPenney who probably came up with the measurement statistic in the first place, let alone ask this little homo right here, but whom are deeply, deeply wrong about the size of their bazungas :) and also, probably at least 25% of this homo was wrong about some portion of his grammar in the above. HI!

[rinue]

Oh, I'm sure there are plenty of women wearing the wrong size bra. Plenty. Or bras which are technically the right size, but very poorly engineered. I think there are plenty of women who would benefit from a better bra, which would make them more comfortable and more attractive. I have myself occasionally and for short intervals been a woman with a bra of the wrong size because my weight changed and I didn't want to start buying new stuff until it stabilized, and it is in no way as good as having a bra I like.

But 75% of women at any given time? I don't buy it.

However, to your point, I completely buy that 25% of women are mistaken. It's amazing to me the ideas non-artists have about proportions, it really is. Being able to look at a thing and not see the thing you're looking at - amazing.

It is also worth the reminder that I have carefully structured my life so as not to interact with "the public" and am not a man of the people, and largely preserve my faith in humanity by being kept away from most of them. But having not met them, I can freely tell you that I'm sure they're bright and winning and noble.

[rinue]

Also if Brazini (Bradini? I can't remember) the great guesser of bra sizes can't weigh in on the bras women are wearing, I don't know who can. It would be like saying to Superman that his experience of flying isn't relevant to what it's like to being a human being who can fly.

Point 2: your superpower is like the most useless x-man power ever, although possibly the most unambiguously positive for society

[knaveofstaves]

That title makes me wish you had a t-shirt with "don't tread on us" printed right across the gams. =)

[rinue]

That would be great, and with the coiling snake and all. Maybe I will make one.

[rinue]

Although I should point out that "gams" means legs. From the Italian "gambe."

[knaveofstaves]

Chalk it up to yet another example of me using context clues to draw a perfectly reasonable incorrect conclusion. =/

[rinue]

I know. I could immediately understand how that happened and I had total sympathy.