The article published by ‘The Mirror’, claims that students at the University of Brighton have the most sexual partners, seeing “those studying on the south coast bed 10.59 people in their time at university according to top a new survey.” And compares this on a chart to other universities in the country, namely Queen Mary London, Southampton Solent, Liverpool Hope and The University of Chester. In addition to this the article mentions that students of Bath Spa sleep with 2.57 people on average during their time at university (though they do not feature on the chart).
In short, while the data provided correlates to the data collected by the surveys creator “StudentBeans”, the data used throughout this article as evidence is extremely unreliable, despite the article claiming that 6000 responses were gained from the survey “The University Sex League”, the article and the data itself fail to detail how many students at each university were asked. For example, if one student from Brighton had an average number of 10 partners, their average as a collective will be substantially higher than say a university where 5 people got asked, 3 students had 12 partners and 2 students had 3. This as a result makes the data provided invalid and thus fails to support the claim made by the article. In addition to this the article further touches on the course where students have the most partners and the data is collected the same way, with no telling of how many students were asked resulting invalid data.
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/student-sex-survey-shows-brighton-3588128