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Smarter Teens Have Less Sex
Tech.Luver writes "Gene Expression reports,
"Tyler Cowen quotes from a new study testing the relationship between grades and delayed sexual activity.
Last December I passed a paper along to Razib showing that high-school age adolescents with higher IQs and extremely low IQs were less likely to have had first intercourse than those with average to below average intelligence. (i.e. for males with IQs under 70, 63.3% were still virgins, for those with IQs between 70-90 only 50.2% were virgin, 58.6% were virgins with IQs between 90-110, and 70.3% with IQs over 110 were virgins)
In fact, a more detailed study from 2000 is devoted strictly to this topic, and finds the same thing: Smart Teens Don't Have Sex (or Kiss Much Either). ""
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Well, then I must have been ultrasmart... :(
The smarter you are the more likely you are to be on /. and if you're on /. well... we all know what that does to your sex life.
This sig is false.
I've got a girlfriend in Brazil. She's a model and I can go down and have sex with her whenever I want.
Since slashdotters have typically IQ in the range of 160 to 220, the will remain virgins till age 72 or so by my extrapolation.
sed -e 's/Chuck Norris/Rajnikant/g' joke > fact
I know this is Slashdot, so the majority of users have not had sex. But if you think this article is implying that means you're smart.. you have just committed a common logical fallacy. Sorry to burst your bubble.
Isn't the definition of a "smart teen", one that DOES have sex? You gotta admit; the teens that have sex must be doing something smart.
Slashdot social media options: AIM, ICQ, Yahoo, Jabber and Mobile Text. Why no MySpace?
That explains the mouth-breathing 14 year olds pushing their babies in strollers and carrying another in their belly I see lumbering around downtown Winnipeg at lunch. They should coat welfare cheques with birth control hormones.
Trolling is a art,
I should be a super genius.
This would actuelly make a really cool Slashdot vote.
How old were you, the first time you had sex:
Below 15
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19+
What is sex??
You gotta love how far-removed this quotation gets:
Cmdr Taco posts that:
Tech_Luver writes that:
Gene Expression reports that:
Tyler Cowen quotes from a:
Razib paper showing that:
A survey found that:
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I'm worried that if I tell someone that I read about this on slashdot, the universe might implode.
Apology to Ubuntu forum.
at least we have /. to bitch about not getting laid ;-)
becasue we wear tinfoil condoms.
Cheers!
Atheist: Buddhist in a Prius
I misread "downtown Winnipeg" as "down to WalMart".
No worries, they're are both equally awful.
I doubt it's less chance for sex. More that there's a lot else to do that's more fun. Like, writing a beautiful piece of code, surely beats wasting a night on hot sex.
I'll go cry now.
We used to have a Bill of Rights. Now, with the rights gone, all we have left is the bill.
Seriously, even among Slashdot readers, I doubt many of you guys would marry someone smarter than you.
Of course not, but mostly because it's really hard to find someone smarter than me.
Give me Classic Slashdot or give me death!
Seriously, though, to be here on campus with 15,000 other young women and still a virgin
Which just goes to show - regardless of what those Wild Co-eds On Spring Break Woo-Hoo! videos seem to show, it's just as hard to get some if you're a lesbian.
Reality has a conservative bias: it conserves mass, energy, momentum...
I can't believe a story that basically says, "nerds lack social skills", made it to the front page. :)
Hi Hatta,
I'm Chris Hanson with Dateline NBC...why don't you have a seat over there?
Throw alcohol into the equation and the results completely change.
"Alcohol: Getting Dumb and Ugly People Laid Since The Dawn of Time"
... and the fact that I don't want to fuck anything that moves doesn't... Sir, I think you suffer from what is called Necrophilia.Cheers!
Atheist: Buddhist in a Prius
Even if you have sex with an infected person, completely unprotected, your risk of catching HIV is something like 0.1%. So yeah, you roll the dice, but, most of the time, you'd actually be fine.
This is my sig.
Given the poor spelling, random capitalization, and generally dreadful grammar, I can draw only one conclusion: You must have gotten tons of action in high school.
> Yours is the classic "majority rules" position.
Maybe that's the problem with your conflicting perspectives -- you just need to try different positions.
Free condoms are partly birth control (better than nothing), partly awkward situations (watch for cute girls taking some), and mostly for practical jokes.
On our campus, there were two very large mixing bowls on a table, and two cute girls sitting behind said table handing them out.
One way: Grab as many as you can and run. Or just calmly take a whole bowl, muttering about how it won't even last you a week...
Another: Slowly count them out loud as you take them. "Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday morning, Wednesday lunch, Wednesday evening, three for all night Wednesday... Thursday, Friday, Saturday..."
Or count them another way: "Jenny, Katie, Sarah -- whoops, better take three for Sarah... Becky, Erin, Samantha..."
Or hang a calendar on your wall and tape them to it, for when people visit. Or make a condom collage! Endless possibilities!
Don't thank God, thank a doctor!
As a long-time Slashdot lurker, I can safely say that for a male crowd claiming to be uninterested in sex, you sure talk about porn a lot.
Bonus lols: the captcha was "filthy"...
Actually, at Caltech the ratio is about 70:30
And it's about 50:50 by weight...
We're all born with nothing.
If you die in debt, you're ahead.