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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...
...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...
...moral problem, the pill is indeed a boon. Biologists have computed that under a dictum of St. Augustine, permitting "only those sexual relations which are necessary to procreation," a man could not expect to have intercourse more than 55 times in his life. But the late Alfred C. Kinsey's studies indicated that the average American has intercourse 5,500 times, leaving coitus with procreative intent at a mere 1%. Dr. S. Leon Israel of the University of Pennsylvania believes that this is ten times too high-that conception is specifically planned in no more than one incident...