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"The survey found that from 2000 to 2018, nearly one in three U.S. men aged 18 to 24 reported no sexual activity in the past year." I'm not sure I understand w
by RIMR 6y ago
"The survey found that from 2000 to 2018, nearly one in three U.S. men aged 18 to 24 reported no sexual activity in the past year."
I'm not sure I understand what they are measuring. This sentence is hard to parse.
Did they ask people who were those ages during those years if they had gone an entire year without sex during that period? Did they ask people of that age slowly over the course of those 18 years and recorded the answers relative to the time in which they were asked?
- war1025 6y agoI believe the correct interpretation is: They ran the study periodically from 2000 to 2018. At each point, they surveyed groups, of which, one bracket was "men aged 18 to 24". Within that bracket, one third of those surveyed reported no sexual activity in the past year. This was roughly consistent over the entire 18 year period.
- maxerickson 6y agoHere's the source article: https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamanetworkopen/fullarticle/2767066 https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamanetworkopen/fullarticle... So it's like the other reply states, ~1/3 respondents to various surveys reported no sexual activity in the year preceding the survey.