I briefly noted this study yesterday, but now W. D. Craft analyzes it in great detail:
I am pessimistic that the authors' more careful conclusions and recommendations will be noticed. Instead I fear we're in for more naive calls for "abstinence education" and coerced virginity pledges.
More like this
NPR has a nice report on the motivations behind false confessions.
College student Bradley Page dropped his girlfriend off in a park one evening, only to learn later that she had been murdered and buried in a shallow grave. Police investigating the death interviewed him about the incident, repeatedly asking him why he could have left her alone in that park.
I'm not sure what to write about this, but I feel a need to write something.
When a suspect confesses to a crime, it's often seen as a clear victory for the prosecution. But what if the confession was coerced?
Those who don't want to have sex less likely to have sex. News at 11.
Really, the notion that you can identify people with "characteristics indicating an inclination to pledge initiate intercourse" who actually won't make such a pledge is pretty silly. If they really had such an inclination they'd do it.