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Or worse, people on Mechanical Turk. Bad sample populations are a huge problem. There's only one really good study on sexual behavior in in the US, called "Sex
by Animats 1y ago
Or worse, people on Mechanical Turk.
Bad sample populations are a huge problem. There's only one really good study on sexual behavior in in the US, called "Sex in America, a definitive survey".[1] It was expensive, but they did it right. They used a random process to select a large number of regions across the US, then random individuals within those regions.
There was a mailed survey, followed up by a phone survey, followed up by visits by interviewers, followed up if necessary by paying people to do the survey. The result was 90%+ participation. That's how you overcome selection bias.
The main result is that, for the overall population, sex is rather mundane.
[1] https://archive.org/details/sexinamericadefi00mich/mode/2up https://archive.org/details/sexinamericadefi00mich/mode/2up