September 2, 2008

QOTD:

“ It doesn’t matter what you measure: STD awareness, assessment of birth control effectiveness, number of partners, age of first sexual intercourse, medical outcomes—there was simply no difference between the two groups. That indicates that children are not getting useful information either from abstinence-only programs or those focused on birth control. You can find a more comprehensive list of the lack of contraceptive education effectiveness here. The upshot: some programs seem effective, but when you do metanalysis, you find that they’re within the expected random variance.
Megan McArdle