Virginity rates poorly among some college majors
Remember this one when your kids tell you their college majors: There's a bar graph making the rounds on the Internet that claims to be an analysis of virginity rates according to major among students at Wellesley College in Massachusetts.
I'm sure the parents who sent their kids there are so proud, especially of their studio art majors, for whom the virginity rate is, I kid you not, 0. Couldn't find a virgin in the bunch. Of course, that's probably the catch: "the bunch," that is, the sample size, is probably too small for this study to have any meaningful statistical value.
By the way, if that last sentence made any sense to you, you might still be a virgin: math majors tied for the highest virginity rates: 83 percent have maintained their sexual purity, according to...
According to whom? There's no study attached to this chart that's floating around. Is it a hoax? One version purports to be from something called Counterpoint Magazine, but my efforts to reach Counterpoint have not been successful (they don't seem to have an updated Web site, and I chased down an e-mail address, only to have my inquiry bounced back as undeliverable. Go figure).
By the way, people who use words like "purports" apparently are as likely to spent the night alone as with a partner: English majors had a 50% virginity rate. So did French majors. Computer science majors were at 40%.
The likeliest virgins: math, biochemistry and political science majors. The likeliest non-virgins: studio art, anthropology and neuroscience majors.
You see, that tells me right there that something's wrong. Biochemistry majors are highly likely to be virgins, but neuroscience majors are highly likely to be sexually active? Huh? All that time, they must be busy manipulating pheromones.
I'll update if I hear back from the actual creators of this chart (pesky little things like methodology and sample size still matter to some of us). [In the meantime, if you're on our main page, click "continue reading" for the chart].
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