Sex Drugs and Texting 287
statesman writes "The Associated Press reports that teens who text frequently are three and a half times more likely to have sex. A survey of 4,200 public high school students in the Cleveland area found that one in five students sent more than 120 text messages a day or spent more than 3 hours a day on Facebook. Students in this group were much more likely to have sex. Alcohol and drug use also correlate with frequent texting and heavy Facebook use."
Re:Shocking... (Score:4, Interesting)
Seriously. "Promiscuity linked to sociability among teenagers, news at 11!"
The only thing different about this and the circumstances that were true when I went through high school is the tech angle. Predictably, this will appeal to the Luddite crowd, which means depressingly it probably will make the news.
Re:Both are caused by an active social life (Score:3, Interesting)
"I'll be the first to say it: Correlation does not imply causation."
Cool, I came here looking for the first dummy who was going to say that. It's Slashdot's most popular content-free thing to mindlessly parrot.
Both the article and even the summary here correctly use the term "correlate" (As in, "Alcohol and drug use also correlate with frequent texting and heavy Facebook use."), so what could you possibly think that you're adding or correcting? As Daniel Dvorkin says, "The correlation between ignorance of statistics and using 'correlation is not causation' as an argument is close to 1."
Re:Shocking... (Score:3, Interesting)
You sound like you are around my age with your cultural references & I assure you, the rest of us were having fun too, we just tended to keep our mouths shut about it.