[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

[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.

[Avenger]

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

[Plutarch]

[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:

[standing united]

Hell, all this time, and I thought kids went to school to learn Math, Reading, and Government.

No wonder there is a dumming down of Americans.

[Palladin]

Reason #3,758 to Homeschool your kids.

[Centurion2000]

I cannot believe that someone got paid to make a F$%K tree diagram of a school. Forgive the vulgarity, but that's what we used to call it on IRC.

[taxesareforever]

Students were asked to identify their sexual and romantic partners in the past 18 months from a roster of other students attending their school.

It is hard for me to believe that students would be willing to provide this information in a truthful manner.

[durasell]

Yet another humiliation for the Chess Club.

[GretchenM]

One might wonder how the teens in the survey have much time and attention for their studies, sports, music, and family, for all the energy and, certainly, worry, that goes along with this choice.

[Jammz]

Well, I'm happy to see that at least there weren't any purple dots to represent transexual or transgender students. A big 0% is a good thing there!! LOL

[Redcloak]

Wasn't this done once before? I'm pretty sure that it was... SNL, with Peter Fonda.