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Are Teenagers Too Rational?

By The Daily Dish
Dec 19 2007, 5:09 AM ET

Science's latest frontier:

That, at least, is the conclusion of a recent study showing that teens overestimate the riskiness of things like unprotected sex and drunk driving, yet choose to do them anyways.



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