Pat's Statistics On Teen Births

[MrRager]

(01-18-2016, 02:25 AM)BFritz21 Wrote: Actually, Pat's argument was that I don't know what I'm talking about and my observations, information gathered from teachers, students, and coaches, along with my experiences of hearing students tell me were wrong because of the national statistics and because he spends a certain amount of hours individually with each student (which was mathematically impossible) that he knows how students around here are and that statistics are accepted for every area in the United States.

Cincinnati being above the national average is completely relevant because seeing how things in my area are is my reality, whereas Pat's theories about teens being overall better because of his observations can't be applied for everywhere because his state has a substantially lower rate than the rest of the country.

Maybe my area's rates are higher, but I was only speaking from my observations, whereas Pat was claiming that I was wrong about my area and Cincinnati because of national statistics.

Trying to base a major claim based off anecdotal evidence in inherently wrong.

So you observe a high rate of teen pregnancy is what you are saying, correct? Well, according to the data, you've probably observed less and less each year as the rate is dropping. No matter how you try to frame or spin the argument, teens in fact are getting pregnant less often (which has literally nothing to do how Cincinnati compares to the national average) and kids are staying away from drugs more. Education has moved kids in the right direction and a few personal stories suggesting otherwise do not change this fact.