# I Doubt if This Story About College Students Will Surprise Many Here **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [December 4, 2008, 12:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-doubt-if-this-story-about-college-students-will-surprise-many-here/475657 "2008-12-04T12:38:02Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 16\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Tuckerfan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/eada6e/32.png) [@Tuckerfan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tuckerfan)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2008, 12:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-doubt-if-this-story-about-college-students-will-surprise-many-here/475657/1 "2008-12-04T12:38:02Z")
[Science discovers the obvious: Nerds don’t get laid.](http://www.news.com.au/story/0,27574,24750737-421,00.html) > [@](#): > > MALE science students are a university’s most likely virgins while females who study arts subjects are the most sexually active, Australian researchers say. > > A pilot study conducted at the University of Sydney saw 185 students, aged 16 to 25, quizzed on their sexual history and awareness of the sexually transmitted disease chlamydia. > > It found arts students were "younger, more likely to be sexually active and to report having little or no knowledge of chlamydia’'. > > "Males in the study were less likely to have had sex as a group compared to the group of females in the sample,‘’ said the study, published in the journal Sexual Health. > > "Science students were also less likely to have had sex compared to their counterparts in other faculties.‘’ Now, this leads to a dilemma: Should one cruise the arts courses of a university in search of nookie? Or, given that astronomy has one of the _highest_ number of women, should you go for the women who’re surrounded by guys with no idea of how to please them? ---
**Author:** ![Jolly\_Roger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/91b2a8/32.png) [@Jolly\_Roger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jolly_Roger)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2008, 12:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-doubt-if-this-story-about-college-students-will-surprise-many-here/475657/2 "2008-12-04T12:46:53Z")
> [@Tuckerfan](#): > > [Science discovers the obvious: Nerds don’t get laid.](http://www.news.com.au/story/0,27574,24750737-421,00.html)Now, this leads to a dilemma: Should one cruise the arts courses of a university in search of nookie? Or, given that astronomy has one of the _highest_ number of women, should you go for the women who’re surrounded by guys with no idea of how to please them? Yeah, this just in…beer makes you drunk. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Wendell\_Wagner](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/8491ac/32.png) [@Wendell\_Wagner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wendell_Wagner)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2008, 2:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-doubt-if-this-story-about-college-students-will-surprise-many-here/475657/3 "2008-12-04T14:24:35Z")
This won’t keep people from continuing to discuss this article, but it’s clear that this is a hopelessly unscientific survey. Too few people were interviewed. There was no attempt to check if the differences between men and women were actually due to their gender or to differences in national origin or something else. There was no attempt to check if the differences in subject studied were due to that or to the different proportions of men and women in those subjects. ---
**Author:** ![WormTheRed](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/bbe5ce/32.png) [@WormTheRed](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WormTheRed)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2008, 2:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-doubt-if-this-story-about-college-students-will-surprise-many-here/475657/4 "2008-12-04T14:37:43Z")
> [@Tuckerfan](#): > > Now, this leads to a dilemma: Should one cruise the arts courses of a university in search of nookie? Or, given that astronomy has one of the _highest_ number of women, should you go for the women who’re surrounded by guys with no idea of how to please them? Easy: always quality over quantity - and the artsy girls should be more in the know 😉 ---
**Author:** ![RickJay](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/bb73d2/32.png) [@RickJay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RickJay)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2008, 3:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-doubt-if-this-story-about-college-students-will-surprise-many-here/475657/5 "2008-12-04T15:03:16Z")
> [@Wendell\_Wagner](#): > > This won’t keep people from continuing to discuss this article, but it’s clear that this is a hopelessly unscientific survey. Too The researchers were going to conduct a proper survey, but they were too busy trying to pick up the arts chicks. ---
**Author:** ![FilmGeek](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/b19c9b/32.png) [@FilmGeek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FilmGeek)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2008, 3:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-doubt-if-this-story-about-college-students-will-surprise-many-here/475657/6 "2008-12-04T15:05:15Z")
I was a female art student who was a virgin until after college was over. Sigh. ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2008, 3:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-doubt-if-this-story-about-college-students-will-surprise-many-here/475657/7 "2008-12-04T15:17:33Z")
It’s people like you who screw up the curve. I’d say go for the Arts gals. At that age it’s all about quantity over quality, the idea being to get quantity to equal something other than zero. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Cat\_Fight](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/90ced4/32.png) [@Cat\_Fight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Fight)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2008, 3:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-doubt-if-this-story-about-college-students-will-surprise-many-here/475657/8 "2008-12-04T15:18:55Z")
> [@Tuckerfan](#): > > [Science discovers the obvious: Nerds don’t get laid.](http://www.news.com.au/story/0,27574,24750737-421,00.html)Now, this leads to a dilemma: Should one cruise the arts courses of a university in search of nookie? Why, so you can catch Chlamydia? ---
**Author:** ![Tuckerfan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/eada6e/32.png) [@Tuckerfan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tuckerfan)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2008, 3:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-doubt-if-this-story-about-college-students-will-surprise-many-here/475657/9 "2008-12-04T15:21:52Z")
> [@Cat\_Fight](#): > > Why, so you can catch Chlamydia? Meh, you go to the clinic, get some antibiotics (or slap a rubber on your willy to begin with) and its all good. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Duckster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/duckster/32/1244_2.png) [@Duckster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Duckster)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2008, 3:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-doubt-if-this-story-about-college-students-will-surprise-many-here/475657/10 "2008-12-04T15:54:11Z")
Perhaps the Aussie arts shelias need to spend more time in the bush [to know about chlamydia](http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/07/080717102417.htm). 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Antinor01](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecae2f/32.png) [@Antinor01](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Antinor01)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2008, 4:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-doubt-if-this-story-about-college-students-will-surprise-many-here/475657/11 "2008-12-04T16:36:15Z")
> [@silenus](#): > > It’s people like you who screw up the curve. > > I’d say go for the Arts gals. At that age it’s all about quantity over quality, the idea being to get quantity to equal something other than zero. 😃 Sounds like something a science student would say. ---
**Author:** ![Angua](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/8baadc/32.png) [@Angua](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Angua)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2008, 4:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-doubt-if-this-story-about-college-students-will-surprise-many-here/475657/12 "2008-12-04T16:40:13Z")
> [@Tuckerfan](#): > > Or, given that astronomy has one of the _highest_ number of women, should you go for the women who’re surrounded by guys with no idea of how to please them? Depends on the astronomer… And the size of his telescope… 😉 Or these days, how much hard drive space he’s got in his MacBook Pro ---
**Author:** ![iamthewalrus\_3](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/258eb7/32.png) [@iamthewalrus\_3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/iamthewalrus_3)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2008, 5:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-doubt-if-this-story-about-college-students-will-surprise-many-here/475657/13 "2008-12-04T17:33:07Z")
[QUOTE=Tuckerfan’s article] Males in the study were less likely to have had sex as a group [/QUOTE] I can confirm this. I was a male science student, and I never had group sex in college. ---
**Author:** ![Fiddle\_Peghead](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fiddle_peghead/32/3506_2.png) [@Fiddle\_Peghead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fiddle_Peghead)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2008, 6:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-doubt-if-this-story-about-college-students-will-surprise-many-here/475657/14 "2008-12-04T18:01:28Z")
> [@silenus](#): > > I’d say go for the Arts gals. At that age it’s all about quantity over quality, the idea being to get quantity to equal something other than zero. 😃 “It’s not the quantity of your sexual relations that counts, it’s the quality. On the other hand, if the quantity drops below once every eight months, I would _definitely_ look into it.” -Woody Allen, _Love and Death_ ---
**Author:** ![lieu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c2a13f/32.png) [@lieu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lieu)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2008, 6:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-doubt-if-this-story-about-college-students-will-surprise-many-here/475657/15 "2008-12-04T18:22:47Z")
Was Liberal Arts not a big enough clue? ---
**Author:** ![Cunctator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/43a26b/32.png) [@Cunctator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cunctator)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2008, 9:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-doubt-if-this-story-about-college-students-will-surprise-many-here/475657/16 "2008-12-04T21:04:32Z")
Perhaps the science students are just more honest than the arts ones.