Sex Map of an American High School

[Ben Reilly]

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I thought people might be interested in a study ( http://researchnews.osu.edu/archive/chains.htm ) conducted by Ohio State University which looked at the sexual and romantic relationships of the students at a high school over an 18 month period.

Considering that those represented in the map are roughly 50% of the student body and that no form of protection is perfect, it's scary just how widely it would be possible for any infection to spread from a single source.

[Insight]

And only one lesbian and one gay coupling in there - and yet they both mix into the straight population.

Interesting school.

[Wong]

Are the singles left out, or are there just none of them? It would contrast the lucky blue dot in the top right of the big cluster, who is surrounded by no less than nine others.

Sadly, thanks to twelve weeks of Graphs and Algorithms, all I can think of is how long it would take Djikstra to run on the diagram.

[hr]No tree has branches so foolish as to fight among themselves

[David Bean]

[s]Wong wrote on 20:30, 29th Jan 2005:
No tree has branches so foolish as to fight among themselves


A little ironic, that, in the context!

[hr]
"Fiat justicia ruat coelum (let justice be done though the heavens may fall)" - Judge James Horton (family motto)

[David Bean]

[s]Wong wrote on 20:30, 29th Jan 2005:
No tree has branches so foolish as to fight among themselves


A little ironic, that, in the context!

[hr]
"Fiat justicia ruat coelum (let justice be done though the heavens may fall)" - Judge James Horton (family motto)

[Raindance]

[s]Insight wrote on 20:07, 29th Jan 2005:
And only one lesbian and one gay coupling in there

I can't find the lesbian coupling! I've just spent the last ten minutes looking for it.

I have no life.

[hr]
Did it, done it, doing it again.

[Haunted]

Be interesting to see such a map of this academic establishment

[Elron]

[s]Raindance wrote on 02:02, 30th Jan 2005:
[s]Insight wrote on 20:07, 29th Jan 2005:[i]
And only one lesbian and one gay coupling in there

I can't find the lesbian coupling! I've just spent the last ten minutes looking for it.

I have no life.[/i]


2nd diagram in from top right, at the centre of that is the lesbian couple.

[bramble]

[s]Haunted wrote on 02:21, 30th Jan 2005:
Be interesting to see such a map of this academic establishment


Are you nuts?! It'd be absolutely MASSIVE!! Also would you include people wo had left as well? If so, imagine the disk space required...

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I need someone really bad. Are you really bad?!

[Greebo]

Still reckon a database of the academic family tree of st andrews would make an excellent project.

[hr]http://www.greebo.org.uk - Loadsa drunken photos and suchlikes.

[flossy]

Wasn't Bonnie trying to do one of the hack community but gave up as she didn't have enough paper?

[Bonnie]

That was a really funny afternoon when I started that project. However, don't get me wrong, I included anything kissing or better, including Raisin Weekend forfeit and truth or dare kissing, which put a lot of peopel into that map who wouldn't otherwise be there. And then, because some people like Oli have been around for ages, we were able to tie other people in, back through, and in again.

I was recording things that happened that I'm not supposed to know about but have since lost the paper. Someone may have major blackmail potential.

What we really need is a computer program that runs similiar to this "6 degrees of Kevin Bacon" game. http://www.cs.virginia.edu/oracle/

The Unviersity of Virginaia also developed one that went from any one actor to another, which is exactly what we need to do either (hack) relationship maps or academic families-- but that's more like a perverted family tree.

[Wong]

It seems easy enough at first to put together a database from which family trees could be drawn up - but St Andrews family trees aren't limited biologically (or indeed logically) so each individual can have more than two parents.

Also, while it's more normal for higher years to parent lower years, it's not always the case, so cycles can occur as well.

Someone with a lot of time on their hands (Greebo?) should have a go with Access, it would be a lot easier than drawing it out by hand.

[hr]No tree has branches so foolish as to fight among themselves

[Greebo]

Oi - I have less time on my hands now than when I was at uni :-p

I do want to give this a try but what I really really want to do is eventually have some way of visualising the results - family tree style. I'm not sure access has such a function (does it?)

[hr]http://www.greebo.org.uk - Loadsa drunken photos and suchlikes.

[Wong]

I'm pretty sure there is, but I'm also pretty sure that I've forgotten it since doing Information Systems.

However, seeing as I've been doing CS for the last two and a half years, I should - in theory - be able to write up something that will draw out the tree from data fed to it (recursively, and all that ponce).

[hr]No tree has branches so foolish as to fight among themselves

[Greebo]

My other plan for something like this is that it would be accessible and updateable online - thus enabling everyone to use and view it.

Access probably doesn't lend itself well to that.

[hr]http://www.greebo.org.uk - Loadsa drunken photos and suchlikes.

[Haunted]

A map of academic familys could not be plotted. Certainly not with two dimenions, four or five should do it