# What's something that people claim happens a lot, but you have rarely, or never, witnessed it? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [March 13, 2022, 12:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-something-that-people-claim-happens-a-lot-but-you-have-rarely-or-never-witnessed-it/960965 "2022-03-13T00:27:51Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 435
**Author:** ![Andy\_L](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/c67d28/32.png) [@Andy\_L](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Andy_L)\ **Post date:** [May 25, 2022, 3:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-something-that-people-claim-happens-a-lot-but-you-have-rarely-or-never-witnessed-it/960965/435 "2022-05-25T15:13:57Z")
Perhaps this one > [@Lower share of female regulars. What to do?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lower-share-of-female-regulars-what-to-do/815612): > > Let’s start with establishing the premise. [Two](https://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb...lts&pollid=483) [separate](https://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb...ults&pollid=44) polls about eight years both showed at that time a gender distribution of about 35 to 41% female (one with various options) and male of about 57%. [Two](https://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=856217) [recent](https://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb...d.php?t=830200) polls show numbers 28ish% female, and about 70 to 72% male now. Understood that polls may not reflect reality but whatever bias they have is likely consistent and together these polls demonstrate pretty conclusively that our female membership is trending significantly downwards over… --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-something-that-people-claim-happens-a-lot-but-you-have-rarely-or-never-witnessed-it/960965)._