That being said, the authors found that more in spending on sexual health services was associated with more underage conceptions
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Basically, this headache of a tablepic.twitter.com/j7oK28ssd0
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What this shows you is that there is a ~small~ increase in conceptions, abortions and births in the under-18s related to more spending
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However it ALSO shows you that there are other factors related to changes in the number of conceptions/abotions/births
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Stunningly, THINGS THAT ARE RELATED TO SOCIO-ECONOMIC FACTORShttps://twitter.com/GidMK/status/869721866646114304 …
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For example, the effect of better GCSE results was 10 TIMES more powerful than expenditure on education programshttps://twitter.com/GidMK/status/869721866646114304 …
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After this, the authors tested the reliability of their model using a long list of interesting tests
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They tested whether ring-fencing the funding for education made a difference, whether pre-2008 decreases in conception rate did...
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... looking only at regions (rather than specific councils), and on and on. And sure enough, expenditure stayed significant
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First important point: THIS INCREASE WAS VERY VERY SMALL (roughly 0.25%)https://twitter.com/GidMK/status/869721711960236033 …
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So even if we were to agree that expenditure CAUSED an increase in conceptions, the increase was negligible
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Second important point: OTHER FACTORS WERE JUST AS RELATED TO CONCEPTION AS EXPENDITUREhttps://twitter.com/GidMK/status/869721866646114304 …
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