MIT and Sex (omg, over 50% have had sex?)

Colleges and Universities A-Z Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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<p><a href="http://www.gnxp.com/blog/2007/04/intercourse-and-intelligence.php%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://www.gnxp.com/blog/2007/04/intercourse-and-intelligence.php&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p>

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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. Wait, holy crap</p>

<p><a href="http://counterpoint.mit.edu/archives/Counterpoint_V21_I3_2001_Nov.pdf%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://counterpoint.mit.edu/archives/Counterpoint_V21_I3_2001_Nov.pdf&lt;/a>

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How Rolling Stone-ish are the few
lucky souls who are doing the horizontal
mambo? Well, not very. Considering all
the non-virgins on campus, 41% of
Wellesley and 32% of MIT students
have only had one partner (figure 5). It
seems that many Wellesley and MIT stu-
dents are comfortingly monogamous.
Only 9% of those who have gotten it on
at MIT have been with more than 10
people and the number is 7% at
Wellesley.

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<p>a sizable percentage has gotten > 10 people?!?!? omg..</p>

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Fifteen percent of Wellesley
non-virgins have had sex in their room
while their roommate was there. MIT
students are apparently a lot less self-
conscious, as 38% of them have.
Twenty-five percent of the Wellesley
non-virgins have had sex on campus in
an area not within a dorm. For MIT the
number is 42%. MIT libraries must be
more accommodating to shacking up.

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<p>10 charzzzz</p>

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<p>keep in mine that your excerpt is from a blog post expounding on how LOW the rate of sex at MIT is.</p>

<p>Welcome to college!</p>

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<p>They could have lied. I don't think many people feel comfortable revealing their sexual information for a statistic.</p>

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<p>Some people are more sexual than others. Welcome to the real world!</p>

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<p>
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that 0% of studio art majors were virgins

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<p>LMAO!! .</p>

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And Timur, by how many percentage points are you personally planning to raise the non-virgin population at MIT in the next three years? ;) I know you're probably already working on it. :D</p>

<p>Also, insert obligatory pedantic-scientist-wank about how the 2001 Counterpoint survey only received the self-reported experience of 2.3% of the MIT student body.</p>

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<p>This screams response bias.</p>

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<p>self-reporting is BAD! or at least can not really be used for statistical analysis</p>

<p>WE NEED AN SRS (simple random sample)
XP</p>

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<p>Quick! SOme one go get/make a table of random digits!</p>

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<p>the study made math majors look bad, but that was only at wellesley. math majors at MIT are doing a lot better =P
and its good to see that ZBT, the frat i'm thinking about joining, had one of the lowest rates out of residences at MIT.</p>

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the study made math majors look bad, but that was only at wellesley. math majors at MIT are doing a lot better =P
and its good to see that ZBT, the frat i'm thinking about joining, had one of the lowest rates out of residences at MIT.

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<p>Alright guys, let us not delude ourselves with the supposed orgies that happen every Friday in an MIT fraternity. I am shocked, SHOCKED to know that such Taiwanese Student Association members have no appreciation for the great sport that is pong. No, it's either WoW or Starcraft, all the way man!</p>

<p>drunner makes an excellent point though. 82 is indeed less than 83, and MIT nerds are clearly sexier than Wellesley nerds.</p>

<p>Get them a plane ticket to Vegas, InquilineKea. Maybe like those MIT blackjack students, people like drunner can do something else that's legal.</p>

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<p>wait where do you get 82 from? 83% is virginity rate at wellesley for math majors.</p>

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<p>I wonder how these tables compare with this: (political orientation vs. house): ^_^</p>

<p><a href="http://web.mit.edu/varenc/www/facebook.html%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://web.mit.edu/varenc/www/facebook.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p>

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<p>edit nvm.</p>

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<p>I'm glad to see people still find my old facebook graphs useful! and damn...that page is ugly....maybe I should make it prettier....</p>

<p>maybe...</p>

<p>nah...</p>

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<p>While I can guarantee I've raised it by 0.3%, I cannot speculate on the rate in the future, really. I'm estimating somewhere around 0.6% plus or minus .2%, but in all fairness, some are graduating so time is working against me. Depending on how motivated I am and how little work I have to do (and how suggestible the freshman next few years are) I may be able to crank it up past that. All in all, I'm aiming for 1%, but if I get to 0.5% I'll consider that a good run. :)</p>

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<p>Lol Olo that is a very crazy statement.</p>

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<p>MIT takes sex statistics very seriously.</p>

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<p>what’s up with reviving an almost three year old thread? lol</p>