Wednesday, January 07, 2009

Funny Which States Are Which

7 comments:

Zach said...

That's the "real America" for you. Homegrown traditional values, right there.

Tom said...

Maybe due to fewer abortions and/or less birth control? Doesn't say which states have the most sexually active teens. (I'm not sure what that would look like nor am I sure if anonymous surveys or whatever would even give accurate results.)

Will Baird said...

http://www.guttmacher.org/pubs/teen_preg_stats.html

http://www.anotherthink.com/my_graphics/abortion-distribution-map.jpg

Some correlation, but not perfect. Florida, Minnesota, and Nevada frex.

Marriage rates would be interesting by age too. That might negate the 18/19 yo and shift a couple states around.

I guess if I were generating the stats I'd be doing from 13 to 17/18 instead of 15-19.

Tom said...

Interesting. Thanks for the extra thoughts and research. Side note, I had to dig a bit to realize those abortion numbers were rankings (with 1 being the highest abortion rate) rather than the raw numbers.

Will Baird said...

took me a minute too. :)

Tom said...

One more comment along these lines. I found this post linked from Yahoo!'s page. They did an amazing misquotation. They changed the term "birth rate" to "pregnancy rate" so blindly I guess they did that in their mind while reading. (Not to say terms like "lamentable" in the original article were all that objective.)

Anyway, I got to get back to work.

Will Baird said...

heh. Teh Stoopid. It burns!