Posts Tagged ‘Counter Point’
Fail: Virginity Rates of Chemistry Undergraduates
by mitch on May 11 2008 (5215 Views)I’ve been recently pointed to some surprisingly high virginity statistics for undergraduate chemistry majors at MIT and Wellesley college. Wellesley’s Graph is below.
Percent of students that are virgins, by Wellesley major
Chemistry majors are tied for 1st with the mathematicians for their lack of sexual hedonism, but the major take-home message is computer science majors are a bunch of liars. MIT’s graph is below.
Percent of students that are virgins, by MIT major
At least at MIT the percentage is lower and we’re not tied for 1st. But to lose so solidly to the physicists does sting a bit. In my experience, undergraduate chemists are a bunch of drunken horny kids, so I’m not sure what is going wrong on the east coast. I’ll put my faith in “the transforming power of chemistry” to remedy this problem.
These statistics are from a college newspaper survey way back in 2001, so take it with a grain of salt. Yes, I was an undergraduate chemist in 2001…
Link to the article: CounterPoint
Mitch
