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Economics students are the most promiscuous
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I didn't realise this was really a dating board:o.
Per today's Telegraph:
Economics undergraduates have topped a survey to find which university courses have the most promiscuous students.
It may be known as the dismal science, but it seems that economics has a rather racier side.
Undergraduate economists were found to be the Casanovas of British students in a survey that discovered they had slept with an average of nearly five partners since starting university.
The poll’s results will come as a surprise to some, although tales are told of youthful romantic dalliances by some of Britain’s best-known economics graduates.
The BBC’s economics editor, Stephanie Flanders, is reported to have dated fellow former Oxford philosophy, politics and economics students Ed Miliband, the Labour leader, and Ed Balls, the shadow chancellor, after leaving university. Ms Flanders has batted off questions about her alleged relationships with the politicians.
The survey by the StudentBeans.com website found that undergraduates studying economics had on average had 4.88 sexual partners since starting university.
Next most promiscuous were students of social work, community care and counselling (4.7 partners on average), marketing (4.57), leisure, hospitality, tourism and retail (4.56) and agriculture (4.44).
Engineers, business students, sports science undergraduates and social scientists also made the top ten.
Theologians, perhaps with their minds on more spiritual matters, came one from the bottom of the list of 43 subjects with an average of 2.13 sexual partners each.
However, the chastest students were found to be those on environmental science courses, who on average slept with 1.71 partners, only just over a third of the number tallied up by economists.
The survey of 4,656 students from more than 100 UK universities shows that traditionally glamorous subjects such as art or media studies do not necessarily confer sexual magnetism. Undergraduates in these subjects were placed in the bottom ten.
Per today's Telegraph:
Economics undergraduates have topped a survey to find which university courses have the most promiscuous students.
It may be known as the dismal science, but it seems that economics has a rather racier side.
Undergraduate economists were found to be the Casanovas of British students in a survey that discovered they had slept with an average of nearly five partners since starting university.
The poll’s results will come as a surprise to some, although tales are told of youthful romantic dalliances by some of Britain’s best-known economics graduates.
The BBC’s economics editor, Stephanie Flanders, is reported to have dated fellow former Oxford philosophy, politics and economics students Ed Miliband, the Labour leader, and Ed Balls, the shadow chancellor, after leaving university. Ms Flanders has batted off questions about her alleged relationships with the politicians.
The survey by the StudentBeans.com website found that undergraduates studying economics had on average had 4.88 sexual partners since starting university.
Next most promiscuous were students of social work, community care and counselling (4.7 partners on average), marketing (4.57), leisure, hospitality, tourism and retail (4.56) and agriculture (4.44).
Engineers, business students, sports science undergraduates and social scientists also made the top ten.
Theologians, perhaps with their minds on more spiritual matters, came one from the bottom of the list of 43 subjects with an average of 2.13 sexual partners each.
However, the chastest students were found to be those on environmental science courses, who on average slept with 1.71 partners, only just over a third of the number tallied up by economists.
The survey of 4,656 students from more than 100 UK universities shows that traditionally glamorous subjects such as art or media studies do not necessarily confer sexual magnetism. Undergraduates in these subjects were placed in the bottom ten.
Please stay safe in the sun and learn the A-E of melanoma: A = asymmetry, B = irregular borders, C= different colours, D= diameter, larger than 6mm, E = evolving, is your mole changing? Most moles are not cancerous, any doubts, please check next time you visit your GP.
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LOL.
I was just about to post that.“The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie – deliberate, contrived, and dishonest – but the myth, persistent, persuasive, and unrealistic.
Belief in myths allows the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought.”
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so basically, those destined to become professional tellers of untruths come out on top.0
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so basically, those destined to become professional tellers of untruths come out on top.
Or could it be because they are destined to go through life with their backs up against the wall?Please stay safe in the sun and learn the A-E of melanoma: A = asymmetry, B = irregular borders, C= different colours, D= diameter, larger than 6mm, E = evolving, is your mole changing? Most moles are not cancerous, any doubts, please check next time you visit your GP.
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chewmylegoff wrote: »And then on the bottom half an hour later.
To achieve equilibrium?Please stay safe in the sun and learn the A-E of melanoma: A = asymmetry, B = irregular borders, C= different colours, D= diameter, larger than 6mm, E = evolving, is your mole changing? Most moles are not cancerous, any doubts, please check next time you visit your GP.
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I find it hard to believe economists outperformed the IT students in the lothario stakes!
Perhaps they only counted real partners0 -
I suspect they have answered the question thus, "if we assume that I got laid 4 times last night.....".
Actually I was shocking when I was a student of Economics. Although as I keep saying, the plural of annecdote isn't data.0 -
Actually I was shocking when I was a student of Economics. Although as I keep saying, the plural of annecdote isn't data.
Were you a Keynsian back then Gen?
"Come back to my dorm and I'll show you my stimulus package?"Please stay safe in the sun and learn the A-E of melanoma: A = asymmetry, B = irregular borders, C= different colours, D= diameter, larger than 6mm, E = evolving, is your mole changing? Most moles are not cancerous, any doubts, please check next time you visit your GP.
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They quite obviously spike to know one where i was on my course. Guys did particularly well, due to ratio of male to female, and heterosexual male to female, then male that did not smell of pigs to female.
Promiscuity is obviously relative...but it surprised me. Perhaps students study harder these days after all.0 -
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