Ganoncrotch said:
Exactly it isn't, which is why I think the figures have been fucked with even more to give us that headline, while it looks like it serves no purpose if list the actual ages of the survey then it should be more accurate. To include people in the ages of 0-18 by using terms like "people under 40" you allow yourself more room to fluff figures to suit a dramatic headline. You could well be correct in which people are being polled but that doesn't mean those numbers aren't being used for the headline is what I mean, say if you get the results from the survey and it tells you that 25% of people from 20-40 are virgins, that isn't a huge headline is it? but as you've done yourself you can deduce that the survey wasn't done on anyone under the age of consent because they are going to be presumed to not be having sex so the can still be added into a result if you want to as 100% virgin it's just when the headlines are pushing the below 40 mark I'm always skeptical because it allows them room to add in extra multiplying factors which make the headline more.... headliney. Lets say you ran a survey to see how many men had 1 testicle instead of 2, you survey a large range of males and find that the number is slight say .... why did I get into this line lol but https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monorchism yeah it's a thing it happens but if the figures from that were remotely high say 5% it still wouldn't give you a great headline, but it could still be manipulated into a grand headline given that injury and testicular cancer are reasons for the removal of them if you wanted to suggest the situation was far more common you could pose the results of your scenario that the % of men with 1 or fewer gradually increased with age, in fact by the age of 60 over 50% of all people are missing one or both testicles. Dramatic increase, now it has eyebrows raised... by the age of 60 you might have lost a testicle! Now you're clicking and talking about it. The reality is the wording has been altered, 50% of people of all ages are missing testicles, they're called women, they don't need to be surveyed to include them in the people who are missing said part of the body but if you phrase it as I've done above no misinformation has been done by me, simply inclusion of people I know to be on the side of the scale that I want to represent as being larger than it is. I'm just saying, never look at the headline from a survey like this and skip over an "oversight" such as including the ages 0-18, very rarely are figures omitted or submitted to a survey analysis unless they're there for a good reason. |
So we can both agree the article headlines are misleading and sensationalist, hence their removal from the thread title, but still, nearly 1 in 3 young adults living a sexless existence is a pretty abnormal and concerning situation.
CosmicSex said:
Earth isn't over populated yet. We have tons of untapped resources and we don't take advantage of engineering insights that would further reduce scarcity. |
Depends on lifestyle factors; if everyone in the world lived like a middle class American, the Earth could only sustain 2 billion people, less than a third of our current population. If we still lived as hunter-gatherers with no agriculture, the Earth could only sustain around 100 million people. On the other hand, if everyone on the planet lived sustainably, only consuming what they needed and not engaging in the massively wasteful lifestyle that modern society encourages, the Earth could sustain up to 40 billion people. But for that to happen, we'd have to completely overhaul the way society functions and reign in our irresponsible overuse of Earth's resources so that the rate at which we consume does not exceed the Earth's rate of regeneration.