Not having, and really not having...
July 22, 2002
The Washington Times is reporting that the reported number of teen virgins rises and that this is directly do to all of the money, time and energy that the Feds have spent ($50 Million) since 1996 advocating abstinence. The article, to me, implies that all of those "pro-safe sex" people are just full of themselves and really havent done anything good. It's this amazing program that contributed to the change.
Fair enough. I was all ready to beleive the information until they presented the numbers on this.
In 1990, the YRBSS found that 54.3 percent of teens in grades 9-12 had had sexual intercourse. By 2001, however, 54.4 percent of high schoolers said they had not had sex.
So Jennie Smith in Hoboken changed her mind and reported that she was now a virgin??
$50 Mil in 5 years doesn't get you a .1% change in a majority of young people that were already reporting they were virgins. It gets you BUPKISS.
.1% is a sampling variation. Unless this is one of the most exceedingly well designed surveys in the history of humanity, one that has no sampling error, no margin of error and a degree of confidence somewhere in the .005 range, then .1% means jack.
So in another 30 years we will get a nice, even 55% of kids reporting they are virgins. Sounds like a government program to me.
Posted by Jody at July 22, 2002 02:06 PM
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"In 1990, the YRBSS found that 54.3 percent of teens in grades 9-12 had had sexual intercourse.
By 2001, however, 54.4 percent of high schoolers said they had not had sex."
If that is the correct quote, then in 1990, 45.7% of high schoolers were virgins and in 2001, 54.4% were. (The text talks of % or non-virgins and then % of virgins.) So the gain is not as insignificant as the comments imply. (But there seems to be no lonk to the article, so "had had" in the first sentence might be a misprint for "had not had" (paralleling the second sentence), in which case the point stands.
Posted by: david margolies at July 22, 2002 02:35 PM
Yes, I've suitably spanked myself for not searching for the original study (again) in order to figure out what the Times meant.
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