Volunteer-error in the Kinsey study.

Maslow, Abraham H.; Sakoda, James M.

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“…Maslow and Sakoda, for example, in their work on "volunteer error" in the Kinsey study, noted that volunteers inflated the percentage who reported unconventional sexual behavior in sex studies [1]. Similar results were obtained by Kaats and Davis, who found that individuals voluntarily attending a study of sexual behavior were more likely to hold liberal sexual attitudes and to have more noncoital sexual experience than nonvolunteers [2] .…”

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“…Both of the agencies solicited in Phase I were ahle to provide us with data on the job level of each employee. Employees were classified as managerial/ supervisory vs. nonmanagerial, and in both agencies this was the most powerful 1 After we had secured preliminary permission to solicit volunteers from a large sporting goods manufacturing company which had a largely male work force, the company was bought out by a nonlocal conglomerate. Permission to solicit and to interview employees was withdrawn.…”

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Who Volunteers for Adult Development Research?: Research Findings and Practical Steps to Reach Low Volunteering Groups

Todd

Davis

Cafferty

1984

Int J Aging Hum Dev

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The present study is an attempt to determine volunteering bias in racial, gender, and age groups in an adult development study. Samples were drawn from three different types of organizations in the Columbia, South Carolina SMSA. Volunteering rates were calculated as a function of the number eligible to participate in three age groups: 1) young adult (aged 20–25); 2) middle adult (aged 40–45); and 3) old (aged 60–80). The middle group volunteered at a higher rate than the other two age groups, but this effect was restricted to the white sample. Women volunteered more readily than men, but not among the elderly. Whites volunteered more readily than blacks. In order to overcome these volunteering biases, special recruitment procedures were employed in order to obtain a sample which adequately represents the populations in question.

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Who Volunteers for Adult Development Research?: Research Findings and Practical Steps to Reach Low Volunteering Groups

Todd

Davis

Cafferty

1984

Int J Aging Hum Dev

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“…Such findings carry, of course, a special impact for research concerned with motivational, social or group interaction variables. Other studies also have clearly pointed out that volunteers tend to be better adjusted psychologically (Maslow & Sakoda, 1952;McDavid, 1965) and to score higher on tests of intelligence (Leipold & James, 1962;Reuss, 1943;Wicker, 1968) than nonvolunteers.…”

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Volunteerism, the Beneficent Subject and Ecological Validity

Williams

1973

Quest

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“…After the two quantitative empirical studies [Gideonse and Sakoda, 1950] 103 and [Lifshitz and Sakoda, 1952], he published on factor analysis [Sakoda, 1952[Sakoda, , 1954[Sakoda, , 1955, and contingency tables [Sakoda and Cohen, 1957]. He authored and co-authored articles on different methodological problems such as the volunteer error in empirical studies on sexual behavior [Maslow and Sakoda, 1952], problems of significance , effects of the order in which pictures are presented [Dollin and Sakoda, 1962]. As a co-author Sakoda contributed to the articles on reinforcement learning [Brand et al, 1956[Brand et al, , 1957a.…”

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Thomas C. Schelling and James M. Sakoda: The Intellectual, Technical, and Social History of a Model

Hegselmann

2017

JASSS

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Abstract:The Journal of Mathematical Sociology (JMS) started in 1971. The second issue contained its most cited article: Thomas C. Schelling, "Dynamic Models of Segregation". In that article, Schelling presented a family of models, one of which became a canonical model. To date it is called the Schelling model -an eponym that affixes the inventor's name to the invention, one of the highest forms of scientific recognition. In the very first issue of JMS, James Minoru Sakoda published an article entitled "The Checkerboard Model of Social Interaction". Sakoda's article more or less went unrecognized. Yet, a careful comparison demonstrates that in a certain sense the Schelling model is just an instance of Sakoda's model. A precursor of that model was already part of Sakoda's 1949 dissertation submitted to the University of California at Berkeley. A substantial amount of evidence indicates that in the 1970s Sakoda was well known and recognized as a computational social scientist, whereas Schelling was an unknown in the field. A generation later, the pattern of recognition almost completely reversed: Sakoda had become the unknown, while Schelling was the well-known inventor of the pioneering Schelling model. This article explains this puzzling pattern of recognition. Technical and social factors play a decisive role. Some contrafactual historical reflection suggests that the final result was not inevitable.

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Volunteer-error in the Kinsey study.

Cited by 59 publications

References 5 publications

Who Volunteers for Adult Development Research?: Research Findings and Practical Steps to Reach Low Volunteering Groups

Who Volunteers for Adult Development Research?: Research Findings and Practical Steps to Reach Low Volunteering Groups

Volunteerism, the Beneficent Subject and Ecological Validity

Thomas C. Schelling and James M. Sakoda: The Intellectual, Technical, and Social History of a Model

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