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Hey, it’s Friday. If you’re not already planning on cocktails on a sunny patio, where you can gleefully swipe through Tinder and avoid eye contact with real human beings, you might want to read this.

We like data here in Tech Land. In fact, we love it. And now, Slate has posted this awesome sex history calculator that will crunch the numbers to let you know just how you stack up against your peers. It’s quick, it’s easy and a little eye-opening.

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“At some point you’ve almost certainly thought about the number of people you’ve slept with and wondered: Is that normal?” writes Slate. “Wonder no more. Enter your stats into our new calculator, and, based on your age and gender, it will tell you exactly which percentile you fall into when it comes to how many partners you’ve hopped in the sack with.”

Now, once you get over the idea of what’s “normal” (nothing is, dear reader, so quit worrying about it.) It’s not meant to super scientific, but just fun. No judgment.

Slate made the calculator based on this study published in the Archives of Sexual Behavior, as reported by the Washington Post, which found that “millennials are on pace to sleep with an average of eight partners during their lifetimes, fewer than Generation X (10 partners) and the baby boomers (11 partners).” Slate then created the sex history calculator based on the General Social Survey using data from 2006-2014 from more than 13,000 people.

It’s kind of surprising in the age of Tinder — and other easy hookup apps — that more kids aren’t getting it on. Then again, these kinds of technologies also dissuade human-to-human contact.

In fact, Vocativ just published a piece that reports that sex therapists are “flocking” to Silicon Valley to help the techies out. “Dan is one of many tech guys who are driving business for the sex therapists of the San Francisco Bay Area,” states the article. “The counselors I’ve spoken with say that anywhere between 50 to 90 percent of their clientele are tech workers, and the vast majority of them are heterosexual men.”

There will certainly be more fascinating studies about tech’s impact on sex and relationships coming down the pipeline. But until then, do the calculator. Have fun. Put the smartphone down and smile at someone already.

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