Do you like chewing gum? Do you like anal sex? Yes, the goofiest poll EVER, I think, but based on "real" science!!!

Okay, here's the scoop. I am at a party where I meet up with an old friend. He is an epidemiologist (group disease expert) and statistician. He took part in a multi center, university based study going to be called "Lifestyle and Behavioral Survey of the 18 to 30 Year Old Demographic". In short, it was a large study of what this age group drives, eats, thinks, does, listens to...etc, etc, etc. It is designed to predict factors that can be watched for future health issues, advertising, and all kinds of things. The survey dealt with a host of health and exercise issues, including sexual issues.

He is not sure how or when results will be published, as they are still crunching data and collecting numbers.

Now, in any statisitical survey, funny things can "drop out" or "associate randomly". For instance, most folks have sex at night. Pregnancy thus happens at night. Stars are out at night, so you COULD find and create a mathematical model claiming there is an association between starlight and pregnancy happening. See the point?

Well, this is probably one of those "funny, unrelated data points", but he was laughing his butt off (pun intended), telling us that it seemed those people in the demographic who "enjoyed or participated in anal sex on a regular basis", also fell under the heading of "enjoyed or chewed gum on a regular basis". (You would THINK that the GUM chewers would be the "enjoyed ORAL sex on a regular basis...but ANAL?).

So...was this JUST a statisical GLITCH or an AMAZING revelation ??? Let's find out. less

Okay, here's the scoop. I am at a party where I meet up with an old friend. He is an epidemiologist (group disease expert) and statistician. He took part in a multi center, university based study going to be called "Lifestyle and Behavioral Survey of the 18 to 30 Year Old Demographic". In short, it was a large study of what this age group drives, eats, thinks, does, listens to...etc, etc, etc. It is designed to predict factors that can be watched for future health issues, advertising, and all kinds of things. The survey dealt with a host of health and exercise issues, including sexual issues.

He is not sure how or when results will be published, as they are still crunching data and collecting numbers.

Now, in any statisitical survey, funny things can "drop out" or "associate randomly". For instance, most folks have sex at night. Pregnancy thus happens at night. Stars are out at night, so you COULD find and create a mathematical model claiming there is an association between starlight and pregnancy happening. See the point?

Well, this is probably one of those "funny, unrelated data points", but he was laughing his butt off (pun intended), telling us that it seemed those people in the demographic who "enjoyed or participated in anal sex on a regular basis", also fell under the heading of "enjoyed or chewed gum on a regular basis". (You would THINK that the GUM chewers would be the "enjoyed ORAL sex on a regular basis...but ANAL?).

So...was this JUST a statisical GLITCH or an AMAZING revelation ??? Let's find out. less

Okay, here's the scoop. I am at a party where I meet up with an old friend. He is an epidemiologist (group disease expert) and statistician. He took part in a multi center, university based study going to be called "Lifestyle and Behavioral Survey of the 18 to 30 Year Old Demographic". In short, it was a large study of what this age group drives, eats, thinks, does, listens to...etc, etc, etc. It is designed to predict factors that can be watched for future health issues, advertising, and all kinds of things. The survey dealt with a host of health and exercise issues, including sexual issues.

He is not sure how or when results will be published, as they are still crunching data and collecting numbers.

Now, in any statisitical survey, funny things can "drop out" or "associate randomly". For instance, most folks have sex at night. Pregnancy thus happens at night. Stars are out at night, so you COULD find and create a mathematical model claiming there is an association between starlight and pregnancy happening. See the point?

Well, this is probably one of those "funny, unrelated data points", but he was laughing his butt off (pun intended), telling us that it seemed those people in the demographic who "enjoyed or participated in anal sex on a regular basis", also fell under the heading of "enjoyed or chewed gum on a regular basis". (You would THINK that the GUM chewers would be the "enjoyed ORAL sex on a regular basis...but ANAL?).

So...was this JUST a statisical GLITCH or an AMAZING revelation ??? Let's find out. less

Okay, here's the scoop. I am at a party where I meet up with an old friend. He is an epidemiologist (group disease expert) and statistician. He took part in a multi center, university based study going to be called "Lifestyle and Behavioral Survey of the 18 to 30 Year Old Demographic". In short, it was a large study of what this age group drives, eats, thinks, does, listens to...etc, etc, etc. It is designed to predict factors that can be watched for future health issues, advertising, and all kinds of things. The survey dealt with a host of health and exercise issues, including sexual issues.

He is not sure how or when results will be published, as they are still crunching data and collecting numbers.

Now, in any statisitical survey, funny things can "drop out" or "associate randomly". For instance, most folks have sex at night. Pregnancy thus happens at night. Stars are out at night, so you COULD find and create a mathematical model claiming there is an association between starlight and pregnancy happening. See the point?

Well, this is probably one of those "funny, unrelated data points", but he was laughing his butt off (pun intended), telling us that it seemed those people in the demographic who "enjoyed or participated in anal sex on a regular basis", also fell under the heading of "enjoyed or chewed gum on a regular basis". (You would THINK that the GUM chewers would be the "enjoyed ORAL sex on a regular basis...but ANAL?).

So...was this JUST a statisical GLITCH or an AMAZING revelation ??? Let's find out. less