It's not MY confusion, it's the author's and it was a deliberate deception. Kind of ruins her credibility. Also the author hasn't convinced me that women cheat more than they used to and her initial credibility gap only widens with each paragraph.
In any case, who would all these women (whatever the number) be cheating with? The author herself says 25% of women cheat compared with 44% of men. How does that compute? She doesn't bother to tell us who is "cheating" with who. Are married people cheating with single people? If so, more married women must be cheating with married men than with single men, to keep their percentages so disparate.
Whatever, the author is bad at math.
As a matter of fact, when I read the title, I knew immediately that it was wrong--before I even read the first sentence of the article. (Everything I know about men and women screams out to me that the title is false.) When I subsequently read the first sentence of the article, I immediately saw that the person who hung the title on the article was badly mistaken about what the author was saying.
The author of the article was NOT trying to deceive the likes of you. On the contrary, she actually stipulates that men cheat more often than men--by a pretty wide margin. Even a casual reader should notice that.
Why am I letting the author off the hook of responsibility for the false title? It's very simple. It's because the author of the article obviously didn't dream up the title of the article. It was written by a sloppy page editor who didn't read the article carefully enough.
This kind of thing happens pretty often in journalism. The problem is, news copy is written by different people from those who write headlines. And they sometimes get sloppy.
So, it was just a boneheaded mistake. I saw what was going on immediately. I didn't even get mad (grin).