User:Keithh5678/Kinsey scale

Method of research
Kinsey collected date via personal interviews with volunteer subjects. He hoped to conduct interview with 100,000 subject from different culture background for the report. Kinsey was concerned with the possible bias in the collected date due to the self- selected nature of the volunteer, he sought to solve the problem by having a large number of sample in the research, but by the time the Rockefeller Foundation had stopped funding the research in 1954, only 18,000 were completed. As a way to increase the accuracy of the data, Kinsey made every effort to create an environment where the volunteer would feel safe to discuss subjects generally not discuss in everyday life. He taught his researchers to act sincere and objective as to put the subjects at ease. By removing the moral judgements and keeping the research completely scientific, he was able to obtain more information. Kinsey himself held interviews with 8,000 volunteers. He believed that he can obtain more truthful responses by exploring contradictions in the subject's story of experience.

A woman who was interviewed by Kinsey himself, later wrote an article describing her experience as such:

"My sex life now belongs to science[...]The story of my shyness with boys, my initial necking party, how frequently I masturbated, my attitudes towards homosexuals, my failure to get full sexual satisfaction until I was 25 will end up as percentages in the sum totals of the amazing sexual research Dr. Kinsey has been doing in the past ten years. "

She also wrote about her impression of Kinsey

"I was a little embarrassed at first by these[...]question but Dr. Kinsey '' s warm-hearted, relaxing manner had me telling my full story without holding back. His personal charm and detached, matter-of-fact attitude makes the truth just come naturally."