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Psychological Test Results

Virginia

Many of you recently filled out a "Sexual Behavior Inventory" test which was prepared by Dr. Peter Bentler of the Psychology Department at UCLA and with whom I am collaborating on a book.

Since results of this test have now been put through the computer we are able to present a few of the conclusions found. First let me explain that one of the purposes of this test when given to "normal" people was to see whether there could be extracted from the bulk of the questions a relatively small series of questions that would form a hierarchy. By this is meant a series wherein everybody who had done say, item 18, for example, would have done all things 17 and below. This would provide a sort of stepwise scale of sexual behavior. When run on college students he found that the results did indeed provide such a hierarchy which turned out to have 21 steps. These 21 questions are given below followed by a table showing the % response of the student group and the TV group. It will be noted that for No. 1 only a small percentage replied yes, with No. 2 and upwards the percentage increases.

There are two interesting conclusions to be drawn from these results. By and large TVs rate very closely to the control group (We can't say "normal" since there is no way of defining normalcy, but the non-TV, student group served as controls). This finding tends to validate the test structure, since two very dissimilar groups turned out to be very much alike and the average age of the student group was in the early 20s while that of the TVs was probably around 40. This fact, accompanied by quite a

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