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pozorvlak

High school sexual networks

Nov 21, 2006 16:02

Interesting article from LiveScience.com, about some researchers who investigated networks of sex and relationships at US high schools, and discovered that they're fascinatingly different from adult networks ( Read more... )

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THis piece of work is utter crap benparker November 22 2006, 01:40:35 UTC

Actually, I haven't read the article, just the summary you linked to. I might dig it out as I'm interested in social networks without it forming a major part of my PhD at the moment ( ... )

Re: THis piece of work is utter crap totherme November 22 2006, 09:20:19 UTC

The small world phenomena that these guys are trying to find only exists in networks in some sort of equilibrium, not in growing networks- why would you expect to find it?

Perhaps they don't expect to find it, but have observed a lot of ineffective STD health drives targeted at the hubs which they don't expect to find. If I was in that position, I'd be sorely tempted to try to disprove the (baseless, but rampant) assumption with a study like this.

It could be that the survey states the obvious from the point of view of a researcher, but is a useful political tool in the hands of a forward thinking educator.

Re: THis piece of work is utter crap benparker November 22 2006, 12:38:04 UTC

I agree, there may be a use to it, I'd like to see the actual science.

Re: THis piece of work is utter crap pozorvlak November 22 2006, 14:48:12 UTC

I hadn't thought of that - thanks! But I think there's often value in proving the "obvious", particularly if (as totherme points out) the political consensus is wrong.

Christianity v AIDS - yeah, I'd be rather surprised if AIDS gets adopted as a state religion anywhere... I'm reading about the spread of early Christianity at the moment, and the huge push it got from Constantine's conversion. Interesting stuff.

Re: THis piece of work is utter crap half_of_monty November 22 2006, 14:55:21 UTC

Oh did you hear Melvin Brag's `Who Killed Christianity?' series? The one about Constantine (as the one who killed the religion) was rather good. I blame Paul myself, though.

Cannot actually remember any of the points he made, just remember listening to it in bed and being impressed.

Re: THis piece of work is utter crap pozorvlak November 22 2006, 15:12:36 UTC

I'm with you on Paul, but he had a lot of help.

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