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Did the original foreskin study control for socio-economic factors affecting the persons who were or were not circumcised? I would think that education, income, occupation, religion, social status, etc would affect the choice to have circumcision completed, and the same factors would affect sexual behavior as well.
the original study was conducted in a rural and heavily infected region of Africa…
The subjects were chosen randomly from the population that signed up…
Sex education was provided, however, follow up medical care, and therefore interaction with medical personnel was likely greater with the cirumsliced group due to the nature of their medical need…
this study eliminated predetermined education to an extent, yet allowed no control for ongoing education by proximity to medical staff involved…
further, both groups faired better than groups outside the study who received no education what so ever…
all in all, what can be said of this study is that it narrowly defined it’s parameters to exclude factors that it created as part of performing the experiment!
That they got the outcome they presupposed?
Priceless.
Err… foreskin less anyway!