One Likely Reason for the Differences Between the Findings on Sexual

question 36

Multiple Choice

One likely reason for the differences between the findings on sexual behavior in the United States of Alfred Kinsey and Edward Laumann is that:

• A) Americans have become much more sexually conservative since the 1940s
• B) Kinsey's team lied about its findings
• C) Laumann's study focused less on sexual activity than Kinsey's study did
• D) their methods-specifically their samples-were quite different

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