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The New Unmarried Moms

Discussion in 'Sports and News' started by YankeeFan, Mar 16, 2013.

  1. Jay Leno once read a headline "Fonda says use head to prevent pregnancy." Go with what work, ladies.
     
  2. doctorquant

    doctorquant Well-Known Member

    [snark]Yes, men are ever so much more incapable of reading and interpreting statistics than women. This is especially true if we are talking about sex or pregnancy. OPS or WAR, men are OK. But if it's regarding procreation, yeah, there's something about that Y chromosome that exacerbates our inability to interpret probabilistic data. [/snark]

    I don't know a single woman who became pregnant on the pill. But whatever the hell does that have to do with what I was responding to? Here, I'll point you to it ...

    Oh, and just one more little detail ... I was talking about condom use, not pill use.
     
  3. waterytart

    waterytart Active Member

    Yeah, some women get pregnant while on the pill. Surprising how many people, male and female, just see the numbers when they're examining statistics, and slide right past "when used properly."
     
  4. SoCalScribe

    SoCalScribe Member

    So you can't do math, and you have no response?

    Duly noted.

    By the way, anyone relying on condom statistics for an argument is kind of a red herring given everything we know about how frequently they are inappropriately used. So, in consequence, any study of people who used condoms for an entire year is going to infer a result wholly incompatible with teens (or others) who have used condoms zero, five or fifteen times in their lives.

    Edit: I'm sorry for wasting everyone's time trying to explain things to you.
     
  5. LongTimeListener

    LongTimeListener Well-Known Member

    Oh this should be fun -- our resident statistics professor being told by a sportswriter that he "can't do math."

    Your Ph.D. means nothing, doctorquant! Throw it in the trash! Are you even a real doctor of quants?
     
  6. doctorquant

    doctorquant Well-Known Member

    Trust me, champ ... I can do the math. What I can't do is figure out is what the eff point it is you're trying to make. Versatile suggested condoms were 98% effective, then calculated a joint probability for a single sexual encounter based on that number (and the effectiveness of the pill). I stand by my point, which is that the likelihood of an unintended pregnancy resulting from a single instance of sex in which both the pill and the condom were used is much smaller than 0.006%.
     
  7. doctorquant

    doctorquant Well-Known Member

    LOL ... no ... I just had a calling, but no real training [/crossthread]
     
  8. Azrael

    Azrael Well-Known Member

    Contra to the Contra to the Contra. From Slate, of course.

    www.slate.com/articles/double_x/doublex/2013/03/marry_in_your_twenties.html
     
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