Newsfront

May, 2005

Daisy-Chain HighColumbus, OHIO--For the first time, researchers have created a detailed map of the sexual interactions of students at an American high school. The team from Ohio State expected to find a core group of promiscuous teens. Instead, after analyzing 832 surveys from students at an unnamed public school in the Midwest, they found that the mostly white respondents connected over the course of 18 months in long chains, including one that contained 288 people. The students rarely shared p...