Posted on 01/24/2005 10:01:51 PM PST by paltz
This network stuff has been used to map out the "real power structure" of organizations. Often this is done by the organizations themselves. One example was to map out the "national security structure" under Clinton. There is the "formal" structure of CIA director, FBI, etc. Then there was some guy Clinton had breakfast with once a week, and similarly with other administration officials. Information can flow rapidly through the informal chains as well as formally.
How then would one count chasity? What counts as an occurance of being chaste?
Don't be silly! Everybody in high school is having sex...
Well, the article says they interviewed 800-and-some-odd kids, and 573 of them reported relationships, so the difference between 800-and-whatever and 573 will tell you how many were chaste for at least the 18 month period the researchers asked about. Those kids don't appear on the diagram, but I guess you could put them on as a set of disconnected dots. Anyway, chastity isn't an event so much as a state - if you had even one relation in that 18 month period, you are defined as not chaste, and if you didn't, you are chaste.
A person is a reader or non-reader if he has read one book in 18 months?
A person is a tv-watcher if she has seen one TV show in 18 months?
I'll bet the class computer nerd(s) have the "sexual network" mapped out in the first few days of each semester. Probably didn't interfere with any of their other activities either. The eighteen month study was most likely eighteen months behind when finished.
In that lesbian part of the graph, one notices that they both also had sex with the same guy, which of course makes one wonder if said experiences were, in fact, at the same time.
For the period in question, yes. I suppose we could argue that there are degrees of chastity or something, but it certainly looks like the authors of this study took it as a binary state - either you are or you aren't, with no other possibility.
Was posted that way to make a point.
Guess, it worked.
The practical result from such a rule is that no cores form, and that long, chain-like networks form instead. That has important implications for preventing the spread of STDs in teenage populations, according to Moody, Bearman and Stovel.
I've got a far easier way to prevent STDs in teenage populations. Teach the kids not to screw around until they are married. Works 100% of the time. Virgins never have STDs
And on the lighter side. I'll lay dollars to donuts that there's at least one enterprising boy in that school who found a way to get the map of the entire network just so he could date the 'node' girls.
Based on the fact that the homosexual and lesbian encounters were by kids that also participated in heterosexual encounters I'd say that the genetic propensity toward homosexuality is bunk. Seems to me it was a choice and they were just being greedy.
Love the one you're with, baby.
I believe that this is also being done in Iraq to map the terrorist network. Interesting stuff.
And this is helpful how? Are they thinking they'll inject appropriate groupings with anti-VD drugs and hope for the best (because I can't imagine they'd want to actually PREVENT the sex)?
If you spread the benefits of abstinence rather than of the acceptability of being sexually active, you'll have an impact, period.
These people who study sex for a living are really disturbing. Do they never get any, is that why they have to study it?
'...(because I can't imagine they'd want to actually PREVENT the sex)?"
Preventing sex is easy. It's called marriage.
-Preventing sex is easy. It's called marriage.-
Oh, dear!
OMG! I went to High School with this guy and dated him when he was a senior and I was a freshman! He later married one of my friends and after college he dragged her off to study Coyote scat in Montana. ROFLMAO! She divorced him a number of years later because she discovered he was basically a deviant who was into MUCH younger girls. In retrospect his choice of studying teens and sex makes perfect sense.
So glad to see he's done SO MUCH GOOD with his life.
Actually, I think that's a threesome. Look at the way the three dots are linked.
Are my eyes failing me, or is there a 'blue to blue' connection on the guy with eight pinks around him in the larger figure? Slow night at the mall, I guess...
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