from Amazon
Tuesday, August 08, 2006
Sex: Correlation Is Not Causation
http://www.earthtimes.org/articles/show/7987.html
Teenagers who listened to sexually degrading music were twice as likely to have sex early on than those who listened to music that was more about love and romance.
But Benjamin Chavis, the chief executive of rappers and hip hop recording executives’ coalition Hip-Hop Summit Action Network, felt the lyrics are only a reflection of ‘social and economic realities’. “We caution (against) rushing to judgment that music more than any other factor is a causative factor,” said Chavis.
And…
He’s got it right. It may very well be that the kids who listen to the raunchy music are those predisposed to having sex at an early age. It’s not the music that makes them do it.
You see this “correlation is not causation” applied plenty of times in the sports world as well.