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Talk:Virginity pledge (view source)
Revision as of 14:10, December 31, 2008
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::It should also be noted that the pledgers and matched nonpledgers, combined, were more sexually conservative than the remaining 2506 students in the subsample - but this is to be expected. The mass-media reports of this study have unsurprisingly underemphasized that the study was comparing sexually conservative pledgers with sexually conservative non-pledgers, not with ''all'' nonpledgers.--[[User:Brossa|Brossa]] 23:11, 30 December 2008 (EST)
::It should also be noted that the pledgers and matched nonpledgers, combined, were more sexually conservative than the remaining 2506 students in the subsample - but this is to be expected. The mass-media reports of this study have unsurprisingly underemphasized that the study was comparing sexually conservative pledgers with sexually conservative non-pledgers, not with ''all'' nonpledgers.--[[User:Brossa|Brossa]] 23:11, 30 December 2008 (EST)
:::Where are you getting your information that the virginity pledge adherents had not had previous sexual intercourse. I haven't explicity seen this. Thanks [[User:Learn together|Learn together]] 00:25, 31 December 2008 (EST)
:::Where are you getting your information that the virginity pledge adherents had not had previous sexual intercourse. I haven't explicity seen this. Thanks [[User:Learn together|Learn together]] 00:25, 31 December 2008 (EST)
::::The virginity pledge adherents had not had previous sexual intercourse at the time of a survey (1995) that took place approximately a year before the survey in which they reported taking a pledge (1996). Whether they were still virgins at the time of the 1996 study is not addressed. I get my information from the '''Pediatrics''' article. In the 'Methods' section under the 'Data' subsection it states:
::::::<small>"Data are a subsample of the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health (Add Health), a nationally representative sample of grade 7 to 12 students inverviewed in 3 waves (in 1995 [wave 1], 1996 [wave 2], and 2001 [wave 3]), as described elsewhere. The subsample comprises respondents who had not at wave 1 taken a virginity pledge or been sexually active, were >15 years of age, and participated in all three waves (n = 3440)."</small>
::::Then, in the 'Variables' subsection,
:::::: <small>"Virginity-pledge status is the wave 2 answer to 'Have you ever signed a pledge to abstain from sex until marriage?'"</small>
::::289 pledgers were identified by their positive response to this wave 2 question.--[[User:Brossa|Brossa]] 09:10, 31 December 2008 (EST)