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[–]MarkJeffersonTight defenses and we draw the line 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

The linked 2021 study about the statistical differences between certain types of desisters and persisters that was published in Frontiers in Psychology is pretty detailed and interesting. Especially the paragraph in the Method section about determining a participants score on the Social Desirability scale(how much they want to fit in), to take it into consideration when tallying the data provided by participants, in order to minimize inaccurate results; As candid disclosures of same-sex attraction were socially discouraged at differing levels based on the environment they grew up in. And then there's the part correlating higher IQ with desisting...