Study on IQ and teen/young adult sex
Excerpt from Collegian article: Study: IQ linked to virginity, By Leslie Finlay
Recent studies.. show that female and male adolescents with an IQ score either below 70 or above 110 are more likely to be virgins.
Adolescents with IQ scores ranging from 70 to 110 had the lowest probability of virginity, according to two researchers from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. The average IQ score is 90 to 110.
The researchers discovered that 39.8 percent of boys with an average IQ score have had sex while 29.2 percent of boys with an IQ above 110 have had sex. [Continued]
[Photo from from book: Women - by Annie Leibovitz, Susan Sontag.]
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