CDC and YRBS: Time for Transparency

This post is related to the Youth Suicide Rise project

CDC response to Washington Post questions related to my criticism of CDC misrepresentation of YRBS results was incomplete and misleading. Furthermore, CDC demonstrated abject inability to admit any mistakes.

Inability to admit error and lack of transparency will damage the integrity of both the CDC and its indispensable high school survey YRBS.

 

CDC YRBS: Bias in Censoring Questionnaires

This post is related to the Youth Suicide Rise project

Evidence indicates that girls whose 2019 YRBS questionnaire did not include the rape question were younger and less likely to be sexually active as well as to ever have had sex -- precisely the factors associated with higher risks of sexual violence victimization. The removal of such a group of girls from the random sample can produce substantial error in results, especially for questions related to sex.