Thread by @Jaydon225

There is this claim that has been going around for a while that a 2012 survey conducted by Durex @durexuk @DurexNG found that Nigerian women have the highest number of paternity fraud of the countries polled, suggesting that they're the most unfaithful women in the world.

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I have been seeing this claim around for a while, and while I have attempted to debunk it several times, I have never written anything comprehensive on it. However, I was surprised to find @DrOlufunmilayo making this claim again today. I hope to put it to bed once and for all.

First, there is no source or journal available online wherein Durex published any such paternity study in 2012. Not even on Durex's own websites.

If Dr Funmi possesses this journal wherein Durex published this study, I hereby urge him to provide it.

Secondly, all the sources that have written publications on this survey - ChannelsTV and ThisDay come to mind - have never provided any actual sources for their claims.

@ChannelsTV claimed that 62% of Nigerian women had cheated. According to what issue in what journal?

Where did @channelstv get this 62% figure from? Why is it not in any journal or on Durex's websites? Why is this mysterious study so elusive? And if no such study exists, where did ChannelsTV get their figures from? And why haven't they taken the article down since 2012?

Furthermore, Dr Funmi's made a second claim that a "DNA expert in Lagos" said 30% of men in Nigeria father children that aren't theirs. Who is this unnamed expert? Where did he get his expertise from? How did he arrive at this 30% figure? Can Dr Funmi answer these questions?

@THISDAYLIVE did a publication on this in 2015. According to them, the article was culled from Ventures Africa (VA), who claimed they got it from "an article that recently resurfaced, originally published two years ago." Once again, this mysterious article isn't cited by VA.

As it turns out, some publications have looked into these claims and found them to be unsupported by evidence. No such survey has ever been conducted in Nigeria, and all figures attributed to these claims are purely made up.

Source: africacheck.org/reports/no-dat…

This, to me, shows the low standard of evidence reporting and poor scientific awareness of Nigerian news outlets. If ChannelsTV can keep an unsubstantiated claim on their website for 8 years while it's being used to spread propaganda and prejudice against women in the...

...country by people with their own agendas, then I wonder if we can trust what these news sites report on sensitive issues such as this, as well as on matters of science.

If Dr Funmi wants to uphold his claims, I urge him to do the following:

1. Name the "DNA expert" who...

...claimed 30% of Nigerian men aren't the fathers of their children.
2. Name the study this unnamed "expert" conducted, and where it was published.
3. Give the citation for the Durex study that shows that Nigerian women are the most unfaithful women in the world.

I'll wait.

If he is unable to do this, I recommend that he honourably take down his propagandist tweets and stop spreading falsehoods about our women, until such a time as good evidence is available.

My two cents. 🙂

#PaternityTest
#DNATest

UPDATE: Durex SA does have a link to a global sex survey conducted in 2012 by the company. The video they posted doesn't mention anything about Nigerian women, though. I maintain that those who quoted the 62% figure for Nigerian women need to back it up.
durex.co.za/about-durex/gl…

Our knowledge of a survey with such huge values and real implications for society should go beyond just a few quoted numbers. What was the sample size in Nigeria? What was the methodology? What are the demographics of the sample set? A lot of questions to be asked.

Correction: Highest percentage of unfaithfulness, not paternity fraud.

The claim about paternity fraud is not the same as the claim about unfaithfulness. They're different.

You ask them to defend their claims, and boom, they block you.

It's so funny!!! 😂😂😂