Lee Daniel Crocker <lcrocker@mercury.colossus.net wrote:
> >>http://transsexual.org/bem.html
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".
>
> 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.
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