Topic: 0.5% of American women believe they had a virgin birth
Anonymous A started this discussion 13 years ago#33,000
A tiny percentage of modern day Americans are reporting having had virgin births, according to a new paper published in a respected medical journal Tuesday.
In the longitudinal study of adolescent health, 0.5% of the 7,870 female respondents consistently affirmed their status as virgins, yet reported a virgin birth without the use of reproductive technologies.
At first, statisticians at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill thought they’d made a mistake in their analysis of their data tracking sexual development into adulthood. Turns out they didn’t, said Amy Herring, lead author of the study published in the Christmas edition of the British Medical Journal. Many of these answers remained the same over years of responses and appear to be consistent with other answers that support a life in which virginity is valued, she said.
“It wasn’t a programming error, that is how they responded,” said the professor of biostatistics in the university’s Gillings School of Global Public Health. “They did say, ‘I am a virgin,’ and they did say ‘I have had a pregnancy.’”
Anonymous B joined in and replied with this 13 years ago, 1 hour later[^][v]#458,734
> 7,870 female respondents > representative of all American women
beckyderp !8ElfFaoFao joined in and replied with this 13 years ago, 9 minutes later, 1 hour after the original post[^][v]#458,736
The problem is conflating the technical meaning of virginity with its cultural meaning. There are women who lose their virginity to rape and many who believe in secondary virginity also. This article is fucking stupid.
Anonymous B replied with this 13 years ago, 1 minute later, 1 hour after the original post[^][v]#458,737
@previous (beckyderp !8ElfFaoFao)
u trottin 4 a twattin m8?
Anonymous D joined in and replied with this 13 years ago, 9 minutes later, 1 hour after the original post[^][v]#458,738
who seriously takes these results and thinks that women claiming spontaneous virgin births is literally what is going on
jeez
squeegee !first/o5zA joined in and replied with this 13 years ago, 4 minutes later, 1 hour after the original post[^][v]#458,739
maybe god is depressed and is trying to fill the void in his life with sex with virgins.
that's what i do.
Anonymous A (OP) replied with this 13 years ago, 32 minutes later, 2 hours after the original post[^][v]#458,742
@458,736 (beckyderp !8ElfFaoFao)
The study's authors used it as an example of why researchers should be wary when analysing self-reported data. Funny though.
beckyderp !8ElfFaoFao replied with this 13 years ago, 2 minutes later, 2 hours after the original post[^][v]#458,743
Anonymous F joined in and replied with this 13 years ago, 2 hours later, 4 hours after the original post[^][v]#458,758
Virgin birth is 100% scientifically possible.
It requires a chimera who is also a hermaphridite, both of whice are exceedingly rare in this day and age. However, it is convievable and not exclusive of reality.