Kinsey was born in the United States at the end of the last century. His initial appearance was not a "sex professor", but a biologist. The main object of his research was an insect called "gallic bee". In this field, whether it is scientific research or teaching, he has worked diligently and achieved remarkable results. However, a series of events outside of work made him change the focus of his work - American college students at that time could get married during school (probably now?). And newlywed college couples (that phrase, I find it a little odd) often have problems with "marital life." By some chance, Kinsey gave some "good advice" to biology students who encountered problems. After this word of mouth spread, more and more students came to Kinsey for guidance. This process made Kinsey realize that the lack and error of college students' sexual knowledge has reached an astonishing level! In order to solve this problem, he persuaded the principal to set up and teach "Marriage Course" in the school.
A lot of people came to the class, and the classrooms of the eight-height class were full. As the number of people attending the class increased, more and more people came to consult with Kinsey. Correspondingly, all kinds of questions about sex emerged one after another. ——Behind the problem are people's worries, worrying that their way of dealing with sex is different from ordinary people and not accepted. And these questions are far beyond the scope of Kinsey's knowledge, and they can't even be checked or asked!
This made Kinsey realize a serious problem -
The America of Kinsey's time was far from the "contemporary America" portrayed in Hollywood films, where everyone seemed to be very open to sex. On the contrary, people (like Kinsey's father, a Puritan and engineer), are very conservative about sex (this has taught me that I thought their "openness" was "innate"! ). Believing that sex (and other desires) are depraved. To this end, people use religion to inculcate, use morality to suppress, use violence to punish, and even use (in the current perspective) the law to bind. These methods don't kill sexuality, they just lead to a huge lack of communication (let alone "research") about sex - people don't know what "others" are like, or who to ask questions, How to solve it makes everyone think that the way they treat sex is different from ordinary people's abnormal performance, and then they are more or less in a painful state of heart and brain separation.
"This is a problem that needs to be solved urgently, so why not let me solve it? (This inner activity is made up by me, there is no such sentence in the film)"
The way to solve it is to collect as much as possible the way people treat sex information and data.
So, Kinsey brought in sponsorship from the Rockefeller Foundation, recruited three graduate students as assistants, drove a car, and started a national "sex" research.
In this process of collecting data, I was fascinated by the qualities of a scientist that Kinsey showed:
First, the "don't know" mentality
I personally hate the "don't know" state - that means "ignorance" to me , "trouble" and "dangerous". Therefore, sometimes to avoid shame, sometimes to be lazy, and sometimes to drive away anxiety, I will "make up" an answer to replace the most simple and honest "don't know".
But Kinsey would say, "I don't know."—even if it seemed like he wasn't erudite ("I don't know" was his answer to a series of questions in a class with hundreds of students), unreliable (eg. , a newlyweds asked him, "Will biting really not lead to pregnancy?" Since he has not done any investigation, he can't give strong evidence, so although he is sure he can't, he still answers "I don't know"), or even no Commissioned - As early as when he was wearing expedition suits and collecting "Gallus bee" specimens across the country, he was asked "what are you looking for?" He replied candidly "I don't know unless I have the data to prove it. A scientist Conclusions can only be made when there is credible data to prove it." - Initially, in my opinion, this answer is crazy, one is running around all day in the wild, surrounded by mosquitoes, comfort or even safety is not guaranteed , but I don't know what I can get by doing such a hard thing. Fortunately, I'm not Kinsey's principal, otherwise he wouldn't even be able to get a penny of research funding. Also, I'll fire this lunatic who doesn't know what he's looking for all day long and let him catch bugs in the grass of a mental hospital.
Tucao returns to Tucao. I also know that this "I don't know" mentality is an extremely useful quality in discovering the "truth." Because of the human mind, the operating mechanism in most cases is "first come to a conclusion and then look for evidence" - most people love to see things that confirm their existing ideas (for example, you are reading this article, and you will think "Qingming, my heart is really talented" - wow hahaha). Not only do people not like to see it, but they even ignore evidence that doesn't fit their pre-existing beliefs. To discover the truth in this way of "shooting the arrow first and then setting the target" can only get part of the truth at most, or even worse, get the result that is completely opposite to the truth. The way to find answers under this mechanism is often just replacing one illusion with another, which is meaningless.
Kinsey's method of "letting the data speak and letting the data draw conclusions" can eliminate subjective interference to the greatest extent possible, and allow the truth to emerge by itself before subjective factors have an impact. Writing this, I even feel that, aside from "spiritual people (Byron Katie only)", scientists may be the group of people who "don't hate" reality and truth the most, because their work allows them to really "experience" that The truth exists objectively - the truth may be exploited, but before they can exploit the truth, they must discover the truth, and until they discover the truth, rejecting the truth will never work - only welcome it with an "I don't know" mentality.
After watching this film, I even feel that my pronunciation of "I don't konw" is more standard than before.
Then there is the ability to devise clever methods.
It turns out that Kinsey is indeed the perfect candidate for "sex research" - he is a biologist, has rigorous scientific training, and even wrote a book on scientific research methods. . More valuable is that he also formally studied psychology. So, when it comes to collecting data, Kinsey is always clever at asking good questions in good ways, resulting in effective answers.
In fact, there is an evolutionary process in the way Kinsey collects data. At first, he only conducted surveys in the classroom. Although this also led to many surprising "heavy taste" conclusions, he And his team quickly discovered that in this form, it is easy for people (mainly students) to "disagree" and give "untrue" answers based on their own information security considerations, and the samples on campus Limited, the conclusions drawn are not very representative. Therefore, Kinsey quickly adjusted the way of information collection, facing people from all walks of life in the whole society, in the way of one-on-one conversation (instead of "one-on-one homework"), in the seemingly relaxed conversation, "set take" a more authentic answer.
He added a lot of little tricks to the conversation. For example, first talk to the respondents about the short things in their parents, so that the other party temporarily forgets that the content of the investigation is their own sexual history, so as to make psychological defense; design questions that echo before and after to prevent the respondents from covering up Lying (unfortunately, the film does not give specific steps - for fear that the lady in the audience will learn it, and then torture her husband!); in order to prevent the other party from covering up the parts they don't want to answer, the questions are refined when asking questions. For example, split the "multiple questions" like "how are you with your parents" into two questions "how are you with your father" and "how are you with your mother" (do your homework, this makes you What do you think of?); train the assistant to relax, get as close as possible to the respondent in space, cast aside their own prejudices, and not show any disgust for the respondent's sexual experience in order to get the respondent to open up; even, Kinsey He also invented a set of text encoding methods to tell the respondents before the survey: your answer will only be recorded in the form of code, and the decoding method of this code is not recorded in written form! ——In this way, the sense of security of the respondents has been greatly improved, so that they can speak the facts more openly.
For Jinsai who designed the above plan, I can only clasp my fists with both hands and say "I admire it."
Then there is the respect for each individual.
This quality may have been obtained when he collected the specimens of "Gallus bee" in his early years. After observing thousands of "gallic bees" specimens under a microscope, he found that there are no two identical "gallic bees", and some "gallic bees" are so different that between two generations of "gallic bees" The difference is as big as goats and sheep! This made him realize that "every living thing is different from every other living thing, and diversity is the real thing". Out of this understanding, he also cherishes every object of his investigations in sexology, especially those who are members of "alternative" groups in the eyes of the secular - homosexuals, sex criminals and abortionists. Because his findings suggest that "every person's sexual behavior is unique, and the term 'normal' is not an accurate description of sexual behavior, only 'ordinary' and 'uncommon' are more appropriate." — though his investors — — The Rockefeller Foundation disapproved of him doing so.
Finally, a "detailed" attitude and extraordinary patience
. Guess how many people the Kinsey survey interviewed in order to make the "report"? How many questions to ask each?
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The answer is that he and his team interviewed 12,000 people and asked each respondent 287 questions!
Seeing this set of data, I suddenly felt that, in comparison, the "WORK/workload" of the dozen or twenty questions I asked myself during the homework process was simply "weak."
The result of this massive workload was two reports: "Men's Sexual Behavior" and "Women's Sexual Behavior." Once the report was published, it caused an uproar—the United States had just dropped two atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki in Japan, and the two reports also dropped two "truth atomic bombs" on the moral and religious circles of the United States. The cold and real data recorded in these two reports tells the world: no matter how religion is inculcated, how morality is suppressed, how power punishes, and how law restricts, the truth is that people’s needs for sexual diversity cannot be erased—
Religion tells people that only sex between men and women is "correct", but "data show" that a significant percentage of people use the other eight forms of sex.
Moral persuades people that masturbation is filthy, but "data shows" that about 90% of men or more than 60% of women have masturbated (囧);
power threatens people, and "perverted behavior" such as homosexuality must be punished and devastation, but 'data show' that 37% of the male population has ever had physical contact and orgasm with the same sex between adolescence and old age; the
law warns people that biting is illegal (in some states), even in marriage Biting is no exception, but "data show" (reply to the rest of this paragraph can be seen);
- In short, no matter what form "social environment" takes, or high-sounding reasons to try to erect "only answer" and drop "other answers", They are all just fighting against the truth, adding to the confusion and pain in the world.
Finally, I am intrigued by a question: Byron Katie said that "truth makes people free", so, as a form of truth, does Kinsey's investigative report have this "effect"?
In a way, yes - while the report drove vindicators crazy, embarrassed conservatives, and even baffled and vilified Kinsey himself, it did liberate a lot of people - there was no internet back then , no BBS, no ebay - people who suffer from pain can't let themselves be relieved by practicing "homework" (huh? There is strange content mixed in, is it a soft advertisement?), gays can't confirm that they are not aliens through "GAY forum" , and people who like to masturbation can't confirm that they are not "sexual perverts" who are isolated by the crowd through eBay's "sex toy comments" (where did they learn these tricks). But Kinsey's report also used real and accurate data to pull many people out of the fear quagmire of "being abandoned by the world and being accused by thousands of people" - at the end of the film, an old woman told Kinsey about herself Experience: She had a happy family - a (loyal) husband of 23 years and an academically successful son. Until one day, she found herself in love with a lady she met at work! She couldn't tolerate her "strange" emotion, so she could only suppress her emotions, and wanted to simply treat the lady as an ordinary friend. However, desperate repression backfired, which made her so miserable that she turned to alcohol and became addicted to it. Alcoholism made her "husband" separated, and her life fell into the abyss until she read Kinsey's "report", which made her realize that there were many others (I believe Kinsey gave in the "report" The exact number is the same as hers, and her own feelings are not weird! So she confessed her feelings to her "friend". And then—yes, you guessed it—her "friend" had the same feeling for her! So, then, naturally, "the queen and the queen have lived happily ever after".
——In that era when "homework" had not yet been born, and Byron Katie was still playing "playing house" in a kindergarten in Basten, these two Lara who were assigned the "wrong" gender by the creator, because of Kim Sai's "report" to gain true love and freedom.
——What about us today?
After reading my review, someone must want to watch this film. Here, I kindly post the address for viewing——
http://www.iqiyi.com/dianying/20130319/a6193298c513fbac.html
——Don’t worry, most of the highlights in the film are not included in this article, not to mention, the devotion and charm of the actors with good images in the film can’t be described perfectly in words!
My movie was written by a netizen who rated it as "My Heart".
Details: Homework Home: A Way to Discover the "Truth"
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