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Talk:Virginity pledge (view source)
Revision as of 04:11, December 31, 2008
, 04:11, December 31, 2008→December 2008 Study counters statements given
:The group for those who had not taken the pledge was specifically those who had not had intercourse. [http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/12/28/AR2008122801588.html] I should point out that Virginity pledges generally make no similar designation. Teens are encouraged to make the pledge even if they are 'born-again' virgins. [[User:Learn together|Learn together]] 18:09, 30 December 2008 (EST)
:The group for those who had not taken the pledge was specifically those who had not had intercourse. [http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/12/28/AR2008122801588.html] I should point out that Virginity pledges generally make no similar designation. Teens are encouraged to make the pledge even if they are 'born-again' virgins. [[User:Learn together|Learn together]] 18:09, 30 December 2008 (EST)
::Out of a larger sample of 7th through 12th graders who were surveyed in 1995, 1996, and 2001, 3440 students were identified who: 1) As of the 1995 survey, were virgins and had not taken a virginity pledge. 2) Were over 15. 3) Had participated in all 3 surveys.
::''From that group of 3440,'' 289 were identified who took a virginity pledge between 1995 and 1996. ''From the remaining 3151'', 645 students were selected who ''most closely'' matched the 289 (by 128 criteria!) ''at the time of the first survey, not the second.'' The assumption is that whatever differences appeared between the two groups at the second and third surveys are related to the virginity pledge and/or whatever made those children take that pledge (a AOSE course, a church group, peer pressure, etc.).
::Both the pledge and nonpledge group had specifically not had intercourse as of the ''first'' survey. Pledgers did not have to be virgins at the time of the ''second'' survey in order to be included in the 'pledge' group - that group may (or may not) have included 'born-again' virgins. The study found that the behavior of the pledgers did not differ from that of the closely matched nonpledgers except insofar as the pledgers were less likely to use methods of pregnancy and STD prevention.
::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)