RESEARCHERS MAP THE SEXUAL NETWORK OF AN ENTIRE HIGH SCHOOL

researchnews.osu.edu ^ | Jeff Grabmeier

[Plutarch]

The description of that large constellation:

The most striking feature of the network was a single component that connected 52 percent (288) of the romantically involved students at Jefferson. This means student A had relations with student B, who had relations with student C and so on, connecting all 288 of these students.

While this component is large, it has numerous short branches and is very broad – the two most distant individuals are 37 steps apart. (Or to use a currently popular term, there were 37 degrees of separation between the two most-distant students.)

“From a student’s perspective, a large chain like this would boggle the mind,” Moody said. “They might know that their partner had a previous partner. But they don’t think about the fact that this partner had a previous partner, who had a partner, and so on.

“What this shows, for the first time, is that there are many of these links in a chain, going far beyond what anyone could see and hold in their head.”

That "striking feature" must be something recognizable in high school culture. The jock/cheerleader nexus?

[paltz]

gee, I wonder who the popular kids were in this diagram /sarcasm

[standing united]

Hell, all this time, and I thought kids went to school to learn Math, Reading, and Government.

No wonder there is a dumming down of Americans.

[Tree of Liberty]

To a first approximation (and I could be way off here) I would expect the boys to "pad" their resume and perhaps the girls to underreport same.

Yep. It's called the "rule of 3". For guys, divide their stated number of sex partners by 3 to get the truth. For women, multiply by the same.

[Drango]

one lesbian pairing.

I'm going blind....where are the two pinks doing the nasty?

[Nataku X]

What is very striking is that most of the sexual relations in a high school can be encapsulated in one large network. Not many individual kids had more htan a couple of partners but it does spread down the network. No wonder STDs are so prevalent.

[standing united]

Most high-school sex is with a Teacher!

[John Lenin]

I want to see the study done at the homosexual high school in New York. Want to be our eyes pop out when we see that one ?

[null and void]

I'm going blind....where are the two pinks doing the nasty?

We told you you would if you kept that up!

Their top row second figure from the right....

[John Lenin]

want to bet

[Avenger]

Where's the single blue dot with the girly mags hidden under his mattress?

[Nataku X]

I see 2 homosexual pairings but no lesbian ones...

[general_re]

I note only one homosexual and one lesbian pairing.

Four out of 573 is 0.69%, and they weren't even exclusively homosexual. So much for the 10% figure.

[null and void]

Their=They're

*sigh*

[woofie]

I was once a lonely blue dot

[paltz]

Interesting...the bisexulity is right there.

[patton]

"Eighty years ago this was not the case: some of the boys might have lost their virginity but the vast majority of girls had not. "

Really? I don't think that pure time ever existed.

[null and void]

They hadn't been recruited. Yet.