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By the age of 19, 80% of US males and 75% of women have lost their virginity, and 87% of college students have had sex. But this number appears to be much lower at elite (i.e. more intelligent) colleges. According to the article, only 56% of Princeton undergraduates have had intercourse. At Harvard 59% of the undergraduates are non-virgins, and at MIT, only a slight majority, 51%, have had intercourse. Further, only 65% of MIT graduate students have had sex.</p>
<p>The student surveys at MIT and Wellesley also compared virginity by academic major. The chart for Wellesley displayed below shows that 0% of studio art majors were virgins, but 72% of biology majors were virgins, and 83% of biochem and math majors were virgins! Similarly, at MIT 20% of 'humanities' majors were virgins, but 73% of biology majors. (Apparently those most likely to read Darwin are also the least Darwinian!)</p>
<p>Looking at this chart it would strongly appear that higher complexity majors contain more virgins than majors with lower cognitive demand. This paper provides me with GRE scores by academic discipline, and, in fact, the correlation between the percentage of virgins in each Wellesley major and the average 'Analytical' GRE score associated with the discipline is 0.60.
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<p>Wow, this is intriguing.</p>
<p>Wait... 87%?!?!? of college students have had sex? Um, isn't that a bit high?</p>
<p>Haha yes, quite an amusing study. When you look at the MIT and Harvard things, makes you wonder if the virginity rate is by choice :) I'm just kidding, when I was at BU, I had many friends from both schools and we always used to makes jokes about that to them.</p>
<p>"I believe that the most interesting students are those who have not yet settled the sexual problem, who are still young, even look young for their age, who think there is much to look foward to and much they must yet grow up to, fresh and naive, excited by the mysteries to which they have not yet been fully initiated. There are some who are men and women at the age of sixteen, who have nothing more to learn about the erotic. They are adult in that they will no longer change very much. They may become competent specialists, but their souls are flat-souled." - Alan Bloom, Closing of the American Mind</p>
<p>This post is so incredibly hilarious! I, too, was pretty much laughing hysterically over the bar graph. Tom Ellis vs. normal teens -- funny! </p>
<p>I want to major in bio or cog sci (and MIT is my ultimate dream school!), so I think that I should show my parents the above data to point out that I would not "get into trouble" while in college if I went to MIT. That would give my anti-MIT, traditional midwestern parents a reason to love the Institvte, right? lol</p>
<p>Wow this actually is pretty hilarious, I feel bad for some of those nerds who can't get any. No offense, and I am in no way implying that I do or not.</p>