WOMENSTD 220 Study Guide - Final Guide: Syphilis, Dyspareunia, Sadomasochism
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Black men and women less likely to perform oral sex. Asians tend to be most conservative group bc: Asians have lowest incidence of same gender sexual experience. Population: group of people researcher wants to study (everybody) Sample: the small part of that population that researchers study that is representative of population. Purposeful distortion- participants purposely give false info to cover guilt or dislike toward sex research. Volunteer bias-those who volunteer may differ in some ways than those who refuse to participate. Men tend to over-report sex partners, women under-report. Reliability- high reliability if produces similar results under consistent conditions--- consistency. Can establish comfort, more open environment with respondent. Flexibility in types of questions you can ask. Can provide research to hard to reach populations. Set of procedures used to make inferences about text/media. Researchers must create a coding scheme to apply it to text/media in order to analyze.
