Facebook makes having sex easy November 12, 2007
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According to a new study published in the US journal Sexuality Research and Social Policy, a third of women who look to the internet for romance sleep with their prospective partners on a first date.
Amazingly, three quarters of those women do NOT use a condom, says the survey. 568 women were asked in total.
Editor of Women’s Health magazine told news.com.au that the results were troubling. She reckons that folk feel more comfortable after having had lengthy conversations online, often through social networking, and so the higher rates of first-date sex aren’t all that surprising.
Romance hungry geeks are more likely to “put out” on the first night of meeting someone as opposed to women in general, who Felicity Percival of Women’s Health says are sticking to the “12 date rule.” The “12 vodka shots” rule is a popular male alternative. -Tamlin Magee
Editor and Contributor | Martin Lynch
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Thats the worst survey I've ever seen hardly post worthy, haha
568 people and you quote three quarters of them to say that facebook makes sex easy facebook has over 49 million users (as of October 2007) so thats hardly factual
Looks like someone doesn't understand statistics. The sample size is important, not the population size. The whole point of sampling is to take a smaller group then extrapolate the results to make assumptions about the population as a whole.
if its the sample size that's important shouldn't the sample cover a good majority of the population size to make a reliable assumption? I just don't think that 190 people out of 49 million people is enough to come to the assumption that Facebook makes having sex easy, and a third of women who look to the internet for romance sleep with their prospective partners on a first date.
the sample size does not need to be 'a good majority' of the population for statistical robustness, just large enough to approximate the population sufficiently. In a fairly homogenous population this happens surprisingly quickly. Of course, it is possible that just by chance everyone you ask has one opinion, which happens not to be the majority opinion, however with a truly random sample this is very unlikely (which is the best you get - certainty is never achieved by sampling)
I understand that but I still don't think that 190 people is a large enough sample to make assumptions from when the total population is 40 million plus. Its like asking 200 people in the whole of England if they smoke or not, if the majority of the sample said that they do would that mean you can rightfully make the assumption that the majority of the country smokes? The sample size just seems very low to make any assumption in my opinion.
sorry, 568 people was the sample size from a population of 49million plus, still i dont think thats enough to make a reliable assumption out of, thats 0.001% of the population.
sample size might no even be issue here. u may have to look at the questionnaire, the way the questions were asked, if it was aimed at drawing a particular crowd of people - and ultimately whether the sample was truly random.