Word: kinseyisms
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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...
...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...
...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...
...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...
...related, unpublished study, Hamer added to growing evidence that male homosexuality may be rarer than was long thought -- about 2% of the population, vs. the 4% to 10% found by Kinsey and others. Hamer notes, however, that he defined homosexuality very narrowly. "People had to be exclusively or predominantly gay, and had to be out to family members and an outside investigator like me. If we had used a less stringent definition, we would probably have found more...