Question

Please SUMMARIZE this article define the main problem and what they are trying to study. Briefly summariZe the main FINDINGS & CONCLUSION.

Who performed and published this article?

Explain how the type of publication affects the validity of the information.

Who do you think is the intended audience of this article, and how did you deduce that?

What was the sample size?

b) Who was included in the sample? (sex, race, gender, orientation, age, etc.)

c) Identify the methods used to gather the information in the study.

o Examples: Case studies, survey (questionnaires or interviews) Direct observation, or experimental method.

d) Analyze the reliability of these methods

ANALYZE the author's results and conclusion based on the data.

Identify at least one critique, author’s bias or validity concerns in the results and conclusion sections.

Based on your overall evaluation of the article, does this article provide valid and quality scientific information about a biological

aspect of human sexuality? Why or why not? * this is your educated opinion

What is the value of the article? What does it contribute to our understanding

of human sexuality?

***This is questions are all based on the study***

Answer 1

SUMMARY OF THE ARTICLE AND MAIN POINTS OF THE ARTICLE:

To assess the occurrence of sexual violence, stalking, and intimate partner violence across sexual orientation groups around United States. The study has been conducted amount U.S. adults.

MAIN FINDINGS & CONCLUSION:

The data collected were compared with heterosexual woman both bisexual women and lesbians who experienced more sexual violence, there is another classification made in the article; contact sexual violence and noncontact unwanted sexual violence by any performer. It also includes the homosexual men who experienced more stalking. There was no significant difference between different groups in the research.

CONCLUSION: The obtained results showed that there are significantly elevated burden of sexual violence that have been experienced by certain minority people.

Who performed and published this article?

• This article was performed by Jieru Chen, Mike L. Walters, Leah K. Gilbert, and Nimesh Patel; and was published online on August 1, 2019.

Explain how the type of publication affects the validity of the information.

• Findings are subject to certain limitations.
• The strategies implemented to faciliate participation, response rates were lower than desired.
• Respondents knew the violence victimization topics before beginning the survey, so there is a possibility of unreliable answers or any other manipulation of the answers.
• This actually affects the validity of the information given in the article.

Who do you think is the intended audience of this article, and how did you deduce that?

• This article has the variety of audiences for the research study starting from heterosexual woman, homosexual men, bisexual women and even lesbians. By deducing all data collected from all those referred here have been taken into account for the study.

1. What was the sample size?

• Total number of samples used = 32512 respondents.

2. Who was included in the sample? (sex, race, gender, orientation, age, etc.)

• Among them: 17104 women were heterosexual, 438 bisexual, 291 lesbian.
• 14,059 men were heterosexual, 235 bisexual and 385 as homosexual men.

3. Identify the methods used to gather the information in the study.

Examples: Case studies, survey (questionnaires or interviews) Direct observation, or experimental method.

• The method used for the study is Questionnaire.

d) Analyze the reliability of these methods

• This study provides an evidence for the bisexual women's elevated experiences of intimate partner violence, sexual violence and stalking.
• This research focused to get a better understanding of the risk and protective factors, underlying causes and associated characteristics of bisexual woman victims who are in the primary focus of the research.

ANALYZE THE AUTHOR'S RESULTS AND CONCLUSION BASED ON THE DATA:

• The author tried to prove that there are more victims suffered from sexual violence around the country. He wanted a coordinated monitoring, implementation of evidence supported actions to reduce the burden of violence across sexual orientation groups. Authors wanted to revise the norms of the government.
• The results showed that there are significantly elevated burden of sexual violence by minority people.

Identify at least one critique, author’s bias or validity concerns in the results and conclusion sections.

• Effective violence prevention strategy needs an evidence based research.

Based on your overall evaluation of the article, does this article provide valid and quality scientific information about a biological aspect of human sexuality? Why or why not?

• This article provides a valid and quality of the scientific information about the nature of human sexuality based on different criteria namely bisexual, heterosexual, homosexual men and lesbian people and their sufferings either at home, workplace or even in public places.

What is the value of the article? What does it contribute to our understanding of human sexuality?

• You can say the value of the article could be a combination of strong feelings of different individuals about the sexual violence they had in their life.

• It also describes the vulgarity of the human nature and the dominance of the people who are in the ruling side and how they behave if they happened to meet a lesser income groups or a weaker person than him. How a human sexual nature elevates with the minority people.