Female art students more sexually active than male science nerds: study

Does this study seriously reveal anything that wasn't known before?

Does this study seriously reveal anything that wasn't known before?

Why yes. Read the last line.

It reveals sexual promiscuity is on the rise, as the number of infectees within the same age group quadrupled.

This is to be expected when we raise entire generations to "do what feels good".

At some point, I'm going to have to try and procure some funding for a study to prove something that generations of humans have taken for granted.

Maybe if I do a psychological study on why people think water is wet... I could finally fund that Montana dream home of mine.

It reveals sexual promiscuity is on the rise, as the number of infectees within the same age group quadrupled.

This is to be expected when we raise entire generations to "do what feels good".

Yes, its so much better to rise people to do "what feels bad". Weren't you a science student by any chance?

And where do you meet these Art Students? I don't mind ambient music at all. I'll just bring earplugs for the rave part. My 'art talk' is up to speed, so I'm set.

As for comments on promiscuity as some sort of moral compass issue:

Art Students are far more likely to get the ideas behind environmental issues (for example), while Science students are more likely to try and foul the presented logic with their desired directions. Contrary to popular belief, the linear mind of the science student is more dangerous to free thinking and association that is critical to being able to understand a plethora of necessary points in a real world, not the rigidified and codified world of 'science'.

The art student is generally more aware that their being is constructed/based on an emotional and out of control monkey that creates problems in the human world at every turn, where the science student is incredibly likely to miss this point to their grave. Go science! Self realization isn't on the Science curriculum, yet it is a fundamental point in order to go forth and do the world no harm.

So how does this veiled attack on humanitarian thinking, caring, Art Students go, again? Tell me again what the agenda is, this time more clearly.

And where do you meet these Art Students? I don't mind ambient music at all. I'll just bring earplugs for the rave part. My 'art talk' is up to speed, so I'm set.

As for comments on promiscuity as some sort of moral compass issue:

Art Students are far more likely to get the ideas behind environmental issues (for example), while Science students are more likely to try and foul the presented logic with their desired directions. Contrary to popular belief, the linear mind of the science student is more dangerous to free thinking and association that is critical to being able to understand a plethora of necessary points in a real world, not the rigidified and codified world of 'science'.

The art student is generally more aware that their being is constructed/based on an emotional and out of control monkey that creates problems in the human world at every turn, where the science student is incredibly likely to miss this point to their grave. Go science! Self realization isn't on the Science curriculum, yet it is a fundamental point in order to go forth and do the world no harm.

So how does this veiled attack on humanitarian thinking, caring, Art Students go, again? Tell me again what the agenda is, this time more clearly.

And where do you meet these Art Students? I don't mind ambient music at all. I'll just bring earplugs for the rave part. My 'art talk' is up to speed, so I'm set.

Your "art talk" is definitely up to speed.

lol

Oh my my. Bravo Bravo! You fool. Extremes
exist merely on the ends of this here bell
curve. The epic "reason vs passion" argument,
presented with such fervor. Well guess what
progress is not made by means of "self
realization."

Wow. Just wow. So much to choose from here! I'll just skip to the real gems.

Yes, its so much better to rise people to do "what feels bad". Weren't you a science student by any chance?

I for one plan to "rise" my kids very carefully if I ever have any. "Weren't you" an English student by any chance?

Art Students are far more likely to get the ideas behind environmental issues (for example),

I suppose we can bid farewell to the entire field of Environmental Engineering then...

while Science students are more likely to try and foul the presented logic with their desired directions.

Strange. I thought that was more a tendency of the human condition than a scientists-only problem. Perhaps my comprehension of political science and politics in general is flawed.

Contrary to popular belief, the linear mind of the science student is more dangerous to free thinking and association that is critical to being able to understand a plethora of necessary points in a real world, not the rigidified and codified world of 'science'.

If science was completely "codified" scientific progress would not happen. People would simply memorize things all their life and never make anything new. It is the ability to look at all of the points in the real world and make new associations which permits progress, and this ability is highly prized among scientists.

Additionally, look up the Renaissance or the origins of the Cubism art movement. The line between art and science isn't quite as clean as you might like it to be.

The art student is generally more aware that their being is constructed/based on an emotional and out of control monkey that creates problems in the human world at every turn, where the science student is incredibly likely to miss this point to their grave. Go science!

You seem to have forgotten about the entire field of biology which came up with this "monkey idea" in the first place.

Self realization isn't on the Science curriculum, yet it is a fundamental point in order to go forth and do the world no harm.

I'd be hard pressed to believe "self realization" is on any curriculum. Wouldn't it, by definition, be something you must figure out for yourself and not something somebody else can teach you?

So how does this veiled attack on humanitarian thinking, caring, Art Students go, again? Tell me again what the agenda is, this time more clearly.

How about you tell me again how the comment you are responding to singled out art students at all or how your response actually addressed any of the perceived complaints?

Live as if you were going to die tomorrow, learn as if you were going to live forever. -- I may not be the one who said it first, but I'll certainly repeat it to those who focus on tomorrow as if today wasn't good enough for them. And to those science students who like to claim they new the answer to one of the teachers question and brag about it during the breaks, or discuss the teacher's ability to spread his knowledge, go take a walk to the cafeteria or the other faculties instead. If you're like me you will realize that the population of the university is composed mostly of women ( more than 50%) and my GOD they are gorgeous!! focus on the right things at the right moment!!

Wow people, don't you have to go study for the F.E. soon or something. Damn, get your mind out of the gutter. Scientist are artist! There are more similarities than there are differences, these kinds of study's serve to propagate the meme of the "modern artist" or the "modern scientist" as an out of touch or free spirited weirdo. Come on the two parties are cut from the same stone. As a scientist i can admit that im more attracted to artist than Engineers.

Another art VS. science crock - artists dumb, scientists smart.

Does anyone here actually have any knowledge of what is studied in art schools these days? ---- All the philosophy that led to the Enlightenment aka the Birth of Science (Hegel, Kant, etc, etc - any of you heard of them?), post-structuralism and the rise of Quantum Mechanics and Chaotic Systems) then this "scientists are smart - artists are dumb" rubbish would never get off the ground.

Anyone remember that Da Vinci guy? was he an artist or a scientist?

jeezus, i wonder why i read physorg sometimes.

I don't like how the article substitutes the word "nerd" for "student" in the title. This article is likely meant to be a jibe at many people who read this site. It should either be edited to neutral wording or removed.

In a nut shell: The more scientific-minded science students are more likely to have and act on info on sexual diseases, and recognize "romantic attractions" are nothing more than the urge to fornicate, hyped and glossed by the society. Not to mention the craps (literally) you get by sleeping around expressing your "free artistic spirits".

Aside from the "duh" factor of this article, I am amazed by these comments. Apparently, former art students on physorg take offense at the suggestion that art students are promiscuous. Further, former science students take offense at being told they weren't able to get laid in college.

Is it any shocker that students who are interested in science have more knowledge about diseases than students who are interested in art? Did they ask follow-up questions, like "How did you learn about Chlamydia?" What about the parents' educational background? Are these students more knowledgeable about sex because their parents raised them that way?

rofl so stupid, this is why they are censoring the Internet in Australia.

White 'n' Nerdy science students FTW!

I think the author of this article took the information from the research and used it as an excuse to make himself and other science students seem superior. Way to go from one thing and completely turn it into something unrelated. I am a female art student and I'm sexually active. I don't know much about Chlamydia specifically, as I'm sure science students do, but I have common sense. I know how to prevent getting STD's. I'm in a longterm monogamous relationship and I don't go to bars or parties or raves and sleep around. And guess what, I'm an A student. Just because I'm an artist doesn't mean that I'm a moron and just because I don't know a lot about specific STD's doesn't mean I don't know how to prevent them. I'm sure the same goes for a lot of artists.

Bluehat's internet ego begs his physical form be punched in the face so very very hard. Then again he reminds me of Michael Bolton....from Office Space.

it has been my experience that artist types are more showy, less private people. so called nerds seem to me to be more private. this could account for the difference in polling. artists might take the poll more seriously too, while scientist types might think it a waste of time and realize that a few "yes" answers lead to more frivolous questions. just a thought, from a person who has some experience with nerdy boys.

"Science students were also less likely to have had sex compared to their counterparts in other **faculties**"

Makes me wonder what it might be like over in the staff lounge in the School of Law...

This is most definitely bs because I'm an engineer and I get tons of ladies on my thang.

im going to uni soon and will be taking physics =D, although, i wont fit into this stereotype of sexually repressed science nerd... this has just shown me that art girls put out more, ill bare it in mind =p

I don't think I've ever seen this many comments in a physorg article before. gg faggots.

"Males in the study were less likely to have had sex as a group ..." What kind of study was this again?

I'm a Science student and I get plenty of ass. I think I'll try to go to more art shows however to properly test this theory with my own set of data.

Theyve been blurring the line between art and pornography since the dawn of history. What are psychology students? Are they science nerds who've taken an interest in sexology?

In other "news", water is wet.

Finally, this explains why I banged more chicks from RISD then Brown.

I for one would like to know how this related to Engineers, being one, I think that "science" majors were always out getting some rather than studying. I guess sexually ambiguous is a relative term.

Now for the engineer in me. The real lesson in this is that the multitude of girls sleeping with a relatively small but highly promiscious group of males leads to a higher concentration of infected possible mates.

If 100 people have to pick from 100 marbles, but all of them wanted the same 10 marbles and if 1 out of the hundred people had leprosy then in the next iteration 10 have leprosy. Then best case scenario you go to 20, worst case you go to outbreak.

Moral of the story? For all you sleazy girls, go bang a nerd it might just save your life. To all the Dorks who get some after this post, please wire payment to my account in the Caymans.

Obviously a study done by a male arts student.

Theyve been blurring the line between art and pornography since the dawn of history. What are psychology students? Are they science nerds who've taken an interest in sexology?

No one needs a psyche...more than psyche. Go to university with sexual issues, if you are taking psyche. Psyches are helpful if not curious folk.

Having been at a college with an arts emphasis, the study does omit one obvious fact ... art students have much more lax schedules than those in the hard sciences. Miss a few math classes, or chem labs, and you might be cooked...miss a few art classes...sluff off on art "homework"...it might not make any difference to your grade at all. And that provides a very useful flexibility for those who have the urge to stay up late with a friend.

Psychology is a pseudoscience. Test whatever you want in whatever fashion you choose and then interpret the results however you want...