Mon 3 Nov 2008
Parents Blame Television for Pregnancy
Posted by obliv1on under current affairs , humor , sex , tvNo Comments
Founded in 1970 as the RAND Graduate Institute and today known as the Frederick S. Pardee RAND Graduate School (PRGS), it had, by January 2006, awarded over 180 Ph.D.s in microeconomics, statistics, and econometrics, social and behavioral sciences, and operations research. Its faculty numbers 54 professors drawn principally from the staffs of RAND’s research units, and it has an annual student body of approximately 900. In addition to coursework, qualifying examinations, and a dissertation, PRGS students are required to spend 400 days working on RAND projects. How RAND and the Air Force can classify the research projects of foreign and American interns is unclear; nor does it seem appropriate for an open university to allow dissertation research, which will ultimately be available to the general public, to be done in the hothouse atmosphere of a secret strategic institute.
Chalmers Johnson author of Nemesis: The Last Days of the American Republic
I have no idea why a think tank for the US government is involved in bullshit studies like the recently released research which links sexy television shows to increased pregnancy, but you have to question the motive. To make a long study short, 2003 kids aged 12-17 years old, were interviewed on their viewing habits for shows like ‘Sex and the City’ and ‘Friends’ and it was found that watching those shows doubled the chances of pregnancy than those who did not watch the shows. I must admit, watching Suzanne Somers play Crissy Snow in Three’s Company doubled my chances of whacking off at age 13.
The study by the Rand Corp. found that of the 2,003 kids interviewed in 2001, 4% either became pregnant, or impregnated a girl based on a re-interview conducted in 2004. It was concluded by this remarkable study the kids who watched the ‘sexy‘ tv shows had double the occurrence of pregnancy than those who didn’t, so roughly 31 children who didn’t watch, compared to 63 who did watch. The re-interview was done three years later! The study doesn’t mention how the kids who were 15, 16, or 17 in 2001 would have been ADULTS in 2004. Let’s see what three years can do to a person.
Some of the contributors to the RAND Corp over the years are none other than distinguished members of the Bush Administration including Condoleezza Rice and former Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld. I typically feel most studies can’t be trusted because by nature they are unable take into consideration external influences which affect results just as much, if not more than the variables the researchers are targeting. It seems clear to me the agenda of the RAND Corporation follows party lines which inevitably is linked to the religious right who love to blame all the ‘evil’ music, games and movies on the reason Cindy Lou became a whore.
A few of my favorite shows growing up through the years of 12-17 years old were in no particular order:
- Miami Vice
- Happy Days
- Fantasy Island
- Good Times
- Love Boat
Using the RAND Corporation as basis for my analysis, I should have turned out to be a young, skinny black cop from the ghetto who wore an awesome leather jacket, fought crime on a cruise ship and had a midget as a sidekick. Come to think of it that would have been sweet!
If there is one thing I have learned from this groundbreaking study is how much I miss Herve Villechaize. RIP Tattoo!
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