Saturday, November 10, 2007

Who's Looking At Pornography?

Using the general social survey, I found that educated people are no more likely to look at pornography than are people who are uneducated. Remarkably, people with the very lowest scores on the wordsum (a strong predictor of IQ) had lower rates of porn viewing than did people with higher scores. I suspect this is because people with little or no education cannot afford pornographic materials, therefore leaving them out of the porn market. Also, I found the number of people, overall, who admitted to looking at pornography to be unusually low, at approximately 22%. This is probably because many respondents are unwilling to admit that they have watched porn in the past. The correlation matrix is posted below. I did not include the full table because of its size.
Correlation Matrix
DEGREEWORDSUM (IQ)XMOVIE1
DEGREE1.00.41.03
WORDSUM (IQ).411.00-.06
XMOVIE1.03-.061.00

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