Of course, this is all based on what the teens choose to answer on a survey. What is the probability that a teenager will answer sexual questions truthfully?
That's the weakness of such instruments. What people say and what is the truth may or may not be closely related.
It has been my experience both professionally and academically, that the longer you work with survey instruments, the less you can rely on them.
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