Misleading Headlines UPDATE

At the end of January the National Union of Students (NUS) in the UK put out a press release stating that "60 per cent of students use porn to find out more about sex".  What the NUS should have said, however, was "60 per cent of students that have ever viewed porn did so to find out more about sex".  For a more detailed explanation of this misrepresentation, see our last post. 

Unfortunately, many outlets regurgitated this grossly exaggerated finding without question:

The majority of students view porn to find out about sex
The Guardian

Sex education comes from porn for more than half of university students
The BBC

60 percent of college kids said they watch porn for informational purposes
New York Magazine

60% of college students watch pornography to learn more about sex
Late Night with Seth Meyers

60% of schoolchildren are turning to porn to find out what sex is
The Debrief

60 percent said they watched porn partly because they were curious about sex and wanted to learn more about topics left undiscussed in their public school sex ed courses
Salon

The majority of teenagers are turning to porn to fill the gaps left by their sex-education lessons
testconnect

most students turning to porn to fill in gaps in their understanding
Western Morning News