From: Scott Badger (wbadger@psyberlink.net)
Date: Fri Apr 23 1999 - 11:11:38 MDT
Lee Daniel Crocker <lcrocker@mercury.colossus.net wrote:
> >>http://transsexual.org/bem.html
>
> Interesting, though I suspect not too meaningful.
> Does this Bem fellow have an agenda, or is this
> supposed to be semi-serious research (or at least
> as serious as it's possible for psychiatry to be)?
>
> (Fem 3.85, Mas 3.70)
> That's me: 6'3", 220 lbs of bald, bearded femininity.
Odd, did it acutally say "in the direction of feminine" or did it say
"neither direction" or did it say "androgynous"? The relatively low scores
and the small gap between scores looks more like "undifferetiated".
As for the validity of the BEM SRI, it is indeed a well-established
psychological instrument that has been used in a large number of studies.
It suffers many of the same problems that other self-report instruments do,
but it has been around for quite a while (I'm guessing 15-20 years). Bem,
btw, is a female.
Scott
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