Ruth Alexander
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4,250 appearances
120 recordings
1 series
first heard Jan 2011
last heard Aug 2018
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That is big.
It is, yeah.
And unless there's been a huge change in the abortion trend, we think the rate of American teenage girls becoming pregnant could have gone down to one in five.
And we asked Bill Albert if he agrees with us that it's likely rates of teenage pregnancy could have dropped again.
Well, what's behind this trend?
That's a question we put to Heather Bonstra from the Guttmacher Institute in the US, a non-government organisation that's been looking into precisely this.
So why are teenagers changing their behaviour?
Well, Heather said there are a number of reasons.
There's also been conflicting research about the influence of TV reality shows such as MTV's 16 and Pregnant.
And whether it puts teenage girls off getting pregnant or glamorises it.
Charlotte, thank you for asking us to look into that.
You're listening to More or Less on the BBC World Service with me, Ruth Alexander.
Now there's one often quoted statement that we get asked to look into fairly regularly, and that is, is 93% of communication non-verbal?
The answer to that is as true now as it was five years ago when Tim Harford interviewed Dr Albert Morabian, whose research in 1968 is the source of that claim.
Now Tim started by asking him, is it true that 93% of communication is non-verbal?
That was Dr Albert Moravian talking to Tim Harford.
that's all we've got time for this week but if you've got any numbers you're suspicious about please email us at more or less at bbc.co.uk and you can also listen to more editions of more or less at our website bbcworldservice.com slash more or less
Hello, this is More or Less on the BBC World Service, and I'm Ruth Alexander.
The team at More or Less love going to the cinema and watching a new film, and the one that's got everyone in the office excited recently is the film based on the book by Gillian Flynn, Gone Girl.
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