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Salient: Victoria University Students' Paper. Vol. 28, No. 12. 1965.

Student Project

Student Project

Dr. W. R. Burch, of the School, of Social Science, told Salient that the survey was a project initiated by a group of Sociology I students. It was simply a class exercise He agreed that criticism could be directed at the questions selected by the students.

The survey contains 32 questions, and students who spoke to Salient objected to some of the questions asked on sexual behaviour.

One student commented that he was strongly in favour of such a survey when conducted by a responsible survey authority which revealed its identity.

"But I find the questions these Stage I students are asking personally offensive," he said.

Another student complained that ambiguities and one direct contradiction in terms made some of the questions meaningless.

He also was not prepared to answer a survey which gave no indication of its origin. He felt that it was impossible to answer questions such as the one which asked what percentage of students had "frequent sexual intercourse with anyone who is willing."

"I can only wonder whether the students know what they are talking about when they refer to self-abuse as heterosexual relations," he said.