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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...fail to tell the whole truth and nothing but the truth. Especially on sensitive subjects like sexual behavior. There is also the risk that the sample will not represent a fair cross section. Both of these problems have plagued earlier sex surveys, including the landmark reports issued by Alfred Kinsey in the 1940s and '50s. The team from the University of Chicago that produced the new study was determined to do better...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BEHAVIOR: But Should We Believe It? | 10/17/1994 | See Source »

...Kinsey thought he'd never get a random sample of people to talk about sex -- and in the inhibited atmosphere of his day he was probably right. He settled for what social scientists call a "sample of convenience," finding volunteers where he could. His numbers were huge -- some 11,000 people -- but selective and self-selected. In later years, mail-in surveys conducted by magazines like Playboy and Redbook and by Shere Hite were still less representative. Even Masters and Johnson called their own classic study "admittedly prejudiced...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BEHAVIOR: But Should We Believe It? | 10/17/1994 | See Source »

...sure. Don't believe the magazine polls that have Americans mating energetically two or three times a week. Those surveys are inflated from the start by the people who fill them out: Playboy subscribers, for example, who brag about their sex lives in reader-survey cards. Even the famous Kinsey studies - which caused such a scandal in the late 1940s and early '50s by reporting that half of American men had extramarital affairs - were deeply flawed. Although Alfred Kinsey was a biologist by training (his expertise was the gall wasp), he compromised science and took his human subjects where...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Behavior: Now for the Truth About Americans and Sex | 10/17/1994 | See Source »

...more than 40 years after Kinsey, we finally have some answers. A team of researchers based at the University of Chicago has released the long- awaited results of what is probably the first truly scientific survey of who does what with whom in America and just how often they...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Behavior: Now for the Truth About Americans and Sex | 10/17/1994 | See Source »

...crisis. To track the spread of the aids virus - and to mount an effective campaign against it - government researchers needed good data about how much risky sexual behavior (anal sex, for example) was really going on. But when they looked for scientific data about sex, they found little besides Kinsey and Masters and Johnson...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Behavior: Now for the Truth About Americans and Sex | 10/17/1994 | See Source »

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