Chapter 3: Sex research

Question 1

purposeful distortion

Answer 1

intentionally giving self-reports that are distortions of reality, either exaggerating or minimizing

Question 2

computer assisted self-interview (CASI)

Answer 2

respondents fill out questionnairres on a computer. This helps increase honesty and thus, reliability.

Question 3

the Kinsley report

Answer 3

1930-1940s, multiple interviews with withe females and males. No probability sampling. Overresponding groups were college students, young people, well educated, protestans, people living in cities

Question 4

The NHSLS

Answer 4

1994, Edward Laumann. National health and social life survey. probability sampling of households was used.
only people between 19-59.
- sample did not include enough people from some statistically small minority groups
- self reports were used, so reliability maybe harmed

Question 5

The NSSHB

Answer 5

National survey of sexual health and behaviour. 14-04. probability sample. response rate was only 50 percent, so volunteer bias might have affected the results.

Question 6

snowball sampling or respondent driven sampling

Answer 6

researchers ask participants to nominate other in their category

Question 7

Qualitative methods

Answer 7

results are conveyed not in numbers, but in words

Question 8

ethnography

Answer 8

method of research that aims to provide a complete, probing description of a human society - for example, by observing or doing interveiws with a brothel

Question 9

Participant-observer technique

Answer 9

the scientist actually becomes part of the community to be studied, and she or he makes observations from inside the community.

Question 10

incidence

Answer 10

refers to the eprcentage of people who have engaged in a certain behaviour