Is It True That “1 in 10 Teens Has Had a Same-Sex Partner”?

A recent news article on AOL Health claims:

Nearly one in ten teens has had a same-sex partner — double what previous research has shown, according to a surprising new study.

The latest findings, published in the journal Pediatrics, reveal that 9.3 percent of teenagers say they have had at least one partner who is the same sex as they are.

That’s about twice as many as indicated in a 2002 study of Massachusetts and Vermont teens showing 5 to 6 percent of teenagers had had same-sex partners.

Kevin DeYoung shows that this is a prime example of how to lie/mislead with statistics.

(Via: Justin Taylor )

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