Talk:Shere Hite

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Contents 1 Slacker edit 2 Criticism of Hite's statistical method 3 Related Articles... neutral? 4 Biographical info? 5 External links? 6 Missing references 7 Hite Report - Influence

[edit] Slacker edit

I tried to spruce up this page somewhat, but only really got to putting in headings before realising I'm way too tired to start adding real content (its way past midnight). I'm keen to move forward with this article, and save it from the "cleanup" tag. I accept that my edit as it stands isn't great - so please be spured into action, or else I will come back and do a better job soon. An An 13:59, 26 Mar 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Criticism of Hite's statistical method

re: Edits by 193.167.195.60 The criticisms of Hite's statistical method might be valid criticisms of any statistical sampling. However,tThe criticisms don't really address the discursive approach and ultimate findings of Hite's work, they merely seek to discredit the foundation of the research as 'unscientific'. The remark about Hite's suposedly 'unorthodox' way of formulating questions is illuminating. These arguments could be better put on a more general scientific context. In this context, its merely feminist-bashing. An An 11:59, 20 Jun 2005 (UTC)

re: Edits by An An The previous version was admittedly too prone to methodological issues not relevant in this context. The shortened version is better. There was no intention towards feminist-bashing or vandalism, just questioning the reliability of population estimates derived from samples with large amount of nonresponders. The current comments concerning the criticism focuses only on this part (conclusions derived from data with large amount of nonresponders). All research does not suffer from such biases which are the main criticism for her conclusions. Therefore, link to selection bias is informative in this context. To balance the criticism, her theoretical fruitfullness regardless of the criticism is now praised in the end. 193.167.195.60 Tue Jun 21 2005

I just realized that link selection bias contains a remark towards a deliberate scientific fraud. To avoid these connotations, I changed the link to bias 193.167.195.60 Tue Jun 21 2005

[edit] Related Articles... neutral?

The "see alsos" on this page all address different types of methodological bias. There's not a single link to any other concept in feminism or sexology. Are there any objections to my paring those links down to just "sampling bias?" I feel that this is an issue that needs to be resolved. Asarkees 06:02, 9 May 2006 (UTC)

10 days and still no comments on this issue. 10 more, and I will remove the NPOV marker. Asarkees 05:12, 18 May 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Biographical info?

I looked up this article because I was interested in this topic, and I was wonder what happened to her after the 1980s (she stopped writing almost entirely after this point, though I see she has a new collection of essays coming out). Anyway, other than a few notes on her educational background, this article is completely lacking in the most basic biographical details. Not good – somebody who's a Shere Hite "expert" needs to fill in the missing details. Peter G Werner 02:19, 25 September 2006 (UTC)

BTW, the German article mentions a different birth name. Is it relevant here?--142.103.92.209 20:56, 27 October 2007 (UTC)

[edit] External links?

One of the links takes you to a page that makes you buy a PDF. Doesn't seem good considering that Wikipedia is all about free knowledge and this site bears the slogan "Knowledge on demand" =(

[edit] Missing references

The first paragraph of the article contains references 1 and 2 which do not have a corresponding link in the References section. Where are they? I couldn't find them in previous revisions? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 91.34.118.86 (talk) 15:48, 27 October 2007 (UTC)

The external New Statesman reference is a broken link. Preacherdoc (talk) 12:52, 12 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Hite Report - Influence

I have read that the Hite report was hugely influential. It's been credited with starting the sexual revolution. None of this is mentioned in this article. All this talk about Hite's methodology seems beside the point, if she was indeed the first to raise certain issues. --142.103.92.209 20:54, 27 October 2007 (UTC)