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Lies, Damn Lies, Statistics

Just to prove the old adage that there are "Lies, Damn Lies and Statistics"...

Earlier this year, published in The Journal of Adolescent Health were the results of a study by Hannah Bruckner and Peter Bearman (of Yale University and Columbia University respectively), which reported that most teenagers who make pledges to abstain from sex until marriage do not keep their commitments and end up acquiring sexually transmitted diseases through risky behaviors at nearly the same rate as those who make no pledge at all.

But NOW researchers from the Heritage Foundation, a conservative research and policy think tank, examined the SAME national survey using DIFFERENT methods of statistical analysis than those used by Bruckner and Bearman. The new results show that young people who pledge virginity until marriage have LOWER STD rates and engage in FEWER risky sexual behaviors, such as oral sex.

"This finding contradicts previous research because the present article describes the behavior of pledgers and non-pledgers as a whole. By contrast, the previous article in the Journal of Adolescent Health described risk behavior only among minute sub-groups of pledgers," Rector and Johnson wrote.

How the hell are we supposed to take this kind of research seriously when the methods used are manipulated to achieve a desired result? Whatever happened to comparing apples with apples and oranges with oranges with the SAME analysis tools?

Hmmm, I suppose if they did that they'd never get their fat research grants

Posted: Saturday 23rd July 2005, 4:05 PM