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Originally posted by sgtclub
If by neutral you mean not having an correlative connection, I agree, but I think that bolsters my point?
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Yes, that's what I mean, but I wasn't looking to your point in general, really, just your statement that middle class and more educated women had more comparatively more abortions than poor, uneducated women. Neither is apparently true, and in one case actually the reverse is true.
But the education discussion doesn't seem to control for things like (i) the "no HS degree" abortion rates may be skewed lower because they include people still attending HS but not yet graduated, a higher percentage of whom (presumably) don't have sex at all, (ii) similarly the "some college" group is undoubtedly weird because a large number of them are students who just haven't finished yet (so, in terms of judging the correlation with "educational attainment" a bunch might arguably better be included with the "degree" group, which would probably significantly change that group's numbers), and (iii) related to (ii), college students (presumably) have a lot of sex and are generally not married, which might mean that the numbers there are due more to age & marital status than educational attainment (same for "some HS" vs. everything else).
To put it another way, the "educational attainment" element, as measured for that study (snapshot at the time of the abortion) seems automatically skewed (a) to include many more young & stupid and non-sexually active people in the lower attainment brackets and (b) to include many more older & wiser, married and sexually active people in the higher brackets.
What does that mean? I dunno, but it isn't really dealt with.
