Comments on: Close Your Legs, Expand Your Mind? http://www.juliansanchez.com/2006/11/27/close-your-legs-expand-your-mind/ Just another geek in the geek kingdom Thu, 09 Feb 2012 05:38:37 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2 By: Jacob T. Levy http://www.juliansanchez.com/2006/11/27/close-your-legs-expand-your-mind/comment-page-1/#comment-1368 Jacob T. Levy Sat, 02 Dec 2006 01:36:53 +0000 http://juliansanchez.com/?p=1429#comment-1368 Sigh. I'm so terribly, terribly late to make the same point Glen and Blar made. But I'm kind of amused that Julian didn't make it in the first place. "Non-impulsiveness and focus on the academic future" needn't be the underlying explanatory variable, not if by the you mean that the effect was one of abstinence by choice by all the high-achieving kiddies worried about the effects of sex on their future. "Nerd effect" does the job very nicely. (And makes me wonder whether the abstenince- achievement correlation has a higher magnitude for boys than for girls.) Sigh. I’m so terribly, terribly late to make the same point Glen and Blar made. But I’m kind of amused that Julian didn’t make it in the first place. “Non-impulsiveness and focus on the academic future” needn’t be the underlying explanatory variable, not if by the you mean that the effect was one of abstinence by choice by all the high-achieving kiddies worried about the effects of sex on their future. “Nerd effect” does the job very nicely. (And makes me wonder whether the abstenince- achievement correlation has a higher magnitude for boys than for girls.)

]]> By: Blar http://www.juliansanchez.com/2006/11/27/close-your-legs-expand-your-mind/comment-page-1/#comment-1367 Blar Tue, 28 Nov 2006 04:25:53 +0000 http://juliansanchez.com/?p=1429#comment-1367 An alternative headline: <i>Study: Nerds not Getting Laid</i> And an alternative description of the problems in inferring causation: What good will abstinence education do? Academically successful virgins didn't need to be taught abstinence, they learned their abstinence on the <i>streets</i>. I also like how their causal theory of how having sex makes you a bad student is actually an argument against any emotionally involved romantic relationship. These relationships can be preoccupying, unstable, and distractions from your studies! Stay away! An alternative headline:

Study: Nerds not Getting Laid

And an alternative description of the problems in inferring causation:

What good will abstinence education do? Academically successful virgins didn’t need to be taught abstinence, they learned their abstinence on the streets.

I also like how their causal theory of how having sex makes you a bad student is actually an argument against any emotionally involved romantic relationship. These relationships can be preoccupying, unstable, and distractions from your studies! Stay away!

]]> By: Glen Whitman http://www.juliansanchez.com/2006/11/27/close-your-legs-expand-your-mind/comment-page-1/#comment-1366 Glen Whitman Tue, 28 Nov 2006 01:38:29 +0000 http://juliansanchez.com/?p=1429#comment-1366 Shocking: they seem to have isolated the elusive "nerd" effect. We nerdy types tended to study hard and not get laid in high school. But the abstinence was not exactly by choice! Shocking: they seem to have isolated the elusive “nerd” effect. We nerdy types tended to study hard and not get laid in high school. But the abstinence was not exactly by choice!

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