Talk:Bem Sex-Role Inventory

Csiegel3840J (talk) 16:48, 1 November 2012 (UTC)In the lead paragraph, "sex typed" needs to have a hyphen in-between it. Under Reliability & Validity, at the end of the middle paragraph, the word "subjects" should have and apostrophe between the "t" and the "s" so it says "subject's." The last paragraph in that same section, the second sentence doesn't really flow. Try adding a comma between "technique" and "42.3%" to make it flow more. Same section, capitalize the word "for" at the beginning of the fourth sentence. Same section, take the apostrophe out of the word "test's" in the last sentence. Otherwise this is a very organized and trustworthy article.

Reliability vs. validity
"However, since this is a self-report inventory how reliable the assessment is depends on how accurately participants rate themselves"

I don't see how this can be true. Surely "reliable" should be "valid"? Paul Magnussen (talk) 16:27, 24 October 2013 (UTC)


 * Reliability and validity mean two different things in science. Reliability refers to whether or not a given test will return the same result when applied multiple times to the same subject. Validity refers to whether or not the test measures what the test was designed to measure. In the case of the BSRI, it has been shown to have high reliability yet its ability to measure what it purports to measure is questionable, at best. Therefore, the BSRI has high reliability yet low validity. Lady Unleashed (talk) 07:02, 29 November 2014 (UTC)


 * Indeed reliability and validity do mean two different things; but since the statement concerns accuracy, and not consistency of results (no mention being made of retesting), it does indeed seem that validity is what's meant. Paul Magnussen (talk) 18:18, 10 July 2016 (UTC)

Alternative Scales
There are other Scales that has similar effects, e.g. Homosexual Attitude Inventory, Lesbian, Gay, and Bisexual Identity Scale, Traditional Masculinity-Femininity Scale, Heteronormative Attitudes and Beliefs Scale. Can those be added to the article also? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 183.179.53.41 (talk) 04:51, 12 March 2022 (UTC)
 * This article is about the Bem Sex-Role Inventory. Other scales could be mentioned in the article if sources compare them. But a broader topic should get its own article, similar to scales of sexual orientation. Enlightenedstranger0 (talk) 06:54, 15 March 2022 (UTC)

Does it really assess how people identify?
"It assesses how people identify themselves psychologically."

I may be wrong here, but I'm pretty sure that the test was never intended to measure how participants identified, but the way in which they conformed to the ideas associated to both masculinity and femininity (gender roles, basically). Shouldn't that sentence be changed? IzayaoiXIII (talk) 17:40, 4 December 2022 (UTC)

Wiki Education assignment: Psychology of Gender
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