Word: kinsey
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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First, legitimate textbooks and studies in fields such as medicine (The Human Sexual Response), sociology (Morals in Wartime), anthropology (Sexual Life of Savages), etymology (Anatomy of Dirty Words), history (Southern Rape Complex--Hundred Year Psychosis), and drug experimentation (Opium, Aphrodisiacs). Included in this group are the studies of Alfred Kinsey...
...classification does not prevent the use of a book--except that library users cannot browse through the cage or remove the books from the reading room. Unfortunately, many students do not understand the XR system. A junior recalls hiking to the Biology Library as a freshman to get the Kinsey Report because he did not know Widener made it available for general use. The Bio Library also kept the book in a locked cabinet, and the freshman was allowed to read the book for one hour--with a matronly librarian hovering at his shoulder...
...miss the point in suggesting that Dr. Alfred Kinsey's study was criticized primarily for the small sample used. A sample of 5,300, properly chosen, is ample for most purposes. Kinsey's work was criticized for exactly the same reason you say Nielsen's ratings are suspect: the respondents may not be a representative sample from the group they are supposed to represent. If the families willing to have a Nielsen recorder on the TV set are a special class, what about the men willing to discuss their private lives with Dr. Kinsey's researchers...
Since it is obviously impractical to poll the nation on anything less important than the selection of a President, one cherished statistical tool is the sample. Not even statisticians can agree on how big or good a sample can be relied upon as representing the whole. Dr. Alfred C. Kinsey's celebrated reports were criticized by statisticians not so much for their moral implications but because they made sweeping presumptions on the basis of too small a sample (in the male study, only 5,300 men provided data). The Nielsen ratings, by which television programs live or die, have...
...pages of a Molly-Bloom-type soliloquy. Sample unthoughts about her unman: "The noise he made when he swallowed; his smelly feet!" Obviously, such a fellow as Tom deserves to be cuckolded. Patsy's choice is a chap named Ron, and together they "could knock spots off the Kinsey report...