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- From: bhv@areaplg2.corp.mot.com (Bronis Vidugiris)
- Subject: Re: FOR LOS ANGELES AREA WOMEN ONLY
- Organization: Motorola, CCR&D, CORP, Schaumburg, IL
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- Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 01:57:20 GMT
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- In article <1993Jan20.202559.13385@news.eng.convex.com> ramon@convex.com (Ramon Dominguez) writes:
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- )No, it won't bias the sample. That's because the set of people who have
- )ever felt pressured to have a sexual experience when they did not want to
- )*is* the general population. I'm sure that virtually *all* women and *all*
- )men, even all children, have experienced such pressure however mild.
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- Virtually everyone has masturbated. Advertising for people for a study
- who have masturbated will still bias the sample. People who respond to
- such a query will tend to not represent faithfully all people who have
- masturbated. Similarly, people responding to a query own feeling pressured
- will probably not well represent people experiencing the pressure.
-
- Anyway, as long as the author reports the details of the methodology, we
- can go *ick* *phew* when we see the results, if we are so inclined. One
- problem comes in when the author does present the details, but the media
- publishes the results and 'forgets' to mention 'all that methodology stuff'
- when reporting the results - which is quite common, alas.
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