RESEARCHERS MAP THE SEXUAL NETWORK OF AN ENTIRE HIGH SCHOOL

researchnews.osu.edu ^ | Jeff Grabmeier

[Kirkwood]

Based entirely on the assumption that the kids are going to be totally honest in their answers.

[stainlessbanner]

6-Degrees of Kevin Bacon by academia

[writer33]

"Based entirely on the assumption that the kids are going to be totally honest in their answers."

Amen. This here is called I have nothing else to study.

[denydenydeny]

Your tax dollars at work. This sounds less like research than it does an episode of a WB drama.

[2 Kool 2 Be 4-Gotten]

Fascinating article. One thought I had on reading it though was wondering to what degree all these high school students were truthful about their sexual exploits. To a first approximation (and I could be way off here) I would expect the boys to "pad" their resume and perhaps the girls to underreport same. But then again, who knows these days?

[advance_copy]

Oh for goodness sakes! This is pathetic! Not only are your kids being handed condoms at school, but now their "mating habits" are being studied like rats in a cage. Whoever headed this study should be sent to Philadelphia with "Go PATS" tatooed on their forehead.

[rhtwngwarrior]

The researchers used data from the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health.

Let me get this straight: my tax dollars can go to support some useless research by some brainiacs yet the cure to stop rampant sexual disease spreading in high schools, Bible study, is banned? I'm so tired of the liberals and their buddies in the MSM.

[Capriole]

It is disgusting that high school kids even have networks of sexual relations. Eighty years ago this was not the case: some of the boys might have lost their virginity but the vast majority of girls had not. And are we, as a result of the change, happier as a society? I don't think so. The carefully nonjudgemental manner in which the article is written, cleansed of any moral reference, gives tacit approval to all this. And then we are surprised at the epidemic of abortions and STDs.

[Welsh Rabbit]

Based entirely on the assumption that the kids are going to be totally honest in their answers.

Yeah, I wonder what percentage of males lost their virginity at age eleven to a really hot babysitter? According to most my friends in high school, I was about the only guy who didn't...

[Avenger]

In highschool I was highly networked...with my left hand. ;-)

[Plutarch]

[null and void]

You were.

[Drango]

(See figure for a representation of the network.)

No wonder I didn't get any in High School...

[John Lenin]

This will lead to micro managing high school relationships. I'm sure the wackos will find a 'good use' for this study but damn, is there anything sacred anymore ?

[null and void]

The figure:

[Drango]

LoL...I posted it second but Plutarch beat us both!

[null and void]

OoooooKAY. I think that's quite enough copies of the figure.

I note only one homosexual and one lesbian pairing.