Toyo Attempts To Discredit UKM Study On Sex; Says It's "Rubbish."
The Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia study is “rubbish”.That was Selangor Menteri Besar Datuk Seri Dr Mohd Khir Toyo’s response to the study conducted by UKM’s Children and Youth Psychology specialist Dr Khaidzir Ismail which revealed that all the 887 respondents, except for one, confessed to have experienced the “pleasures of the flesh”.
“We have checked the findings and discovered that 68 per cent of its contents are lies. It’s rubbish. Khaidzir has admitted that the findings were inaccurate and flawed. I have spoken to him and told him to correct it,” said Dr Mohd Khir yesterday.
The Selangor Menteri Besar said he had gone through the survey findings thoroughly and spotted the inaccuracies. “He got our population figures wrong and the definition of sex was flawed. On the question of sex ... some people say touching with the mouth is sex and rubbing noses is also sex. See, even the definition of sex is not correct,” he said.
Dr Mohd Khir said he ordered his officers to pick at random the respondents who took part in Khaidzir’s survey. “We picked 54 and called them up. They told our officers that they had never had sex and that they are virgins. Then how did the psychologist come to the conclusion that only one of the 887 girls interviewed was a virgin?”
The High-Risk Female Youth Profile study completed last December involved high-risk secondary students selected by their respective schools’ counsellors. The three-month study revealed that 98 per cent of the respondents took drugs while 98 per cent were involved in secret societies, 96.8 per cent in gambling and 85.4 per cent in vandalism. It also showed that 97.3 per cent had seen obscene materials and 77.2 per cent had skipped schools.
Dr Mohd Khir said the report had tarnished the State’s image.
“We are trying to be Number One and had hoped to lead the way and this happened,” he said. He said the State Government had undertaken various measures to check the problem of indiscipline among students.
Dr Mohd Khir said the State Government had placed more than 100 troubled female youths under the supervision of the Selangor Wives Welfare and Charity Organisation (Balkis), Selangor Islamic Religious Council and Selangor Development Department. (The Malay Mail)
***** I like one laughable statement that Khir Toyo made. He proudly said that he ordered his officers to pick at random the respondents who took part in Khaidzir’s survey. “We picked 54 and called them up. They told our officers that they had never had sex and that they are virgins." Did Toyo really expect anyone of those called and asked if they were virgins to say "no I'm not a virgin?" Come on lah!
If truth be said, Toyo is more concerned about his state's image being 'tarnished' than the future of our young ones. And to that effect, they are going to lean on the poor psychologist Dr Khaidzir Ismail to retract everything and in the process discredit the findings as well as the reputation of the good doctor. Our pemimpin of course have a lot of experience in clobbering those who come out with figures and findings that they are uncomfortable with. The ASLI Bumiputra Equity Ownership Dispute is a case in point.
Let us wait and watch the sandiwara as it unfolds.
Related report: UKM Defends The Findings.
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posted by The Malaysian. at 3/02/2007 06:28:00 PM
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The idiot said he got some officials to round them up or call them up i can't be sure and asked them if they had sex before or were virgins? what a super duper first class idiot! nobody knew until he opened his mouth. THere are ways and there are ways to ask a question. This is not one of them. what kind of answer can one give under these kind of circumstances?
OK. This article is disturbing on several levels.
Firstly, Khir Toyo has no business ordering a scientist (and I use this word very loosely on this
UKM psychologist...reason to be elaborated on below), to "correct" the data simply because it is an inconvenient fact. If the data and
methods are problematic, they need to be peer-reviewed by others with expertise in the field, and not by a half past six ex-dentist overseeing what is perceived to be one of the most corrupt State administrations in the country.
Secondly, if what Khir Toyo says is correct based on his "investigation", that the definition of sex was ambiguous, then it is very damaging to the competency of this UKM psychologist. One of the basic foundations of a psychologist is to have competent skills in measuring human behavior. There is no room for inflated ambiguity such as that described by Khir Toyo (assuming he is telling the truth).
The third and most DAMNING indictment on the competency
of this psychologist (without a reasonable doubt) is that he/she violated one of the basic tenets of human psychological research; i.e. by not ensuring the strictest confidentiality with regards to the private, identifiable information of those who participated in the study. This UKM psychologist is DUTY BOUND by ethical codes of conduct of the profession to ensure utmost confidentiality and has no business handing over private data to Khir Toyo's goons to make phone calls with.
This psychologist should be fired immediately, and if certified by any local board for practicing psychology, should have his/her license immediately revoked.
Obviously, it may be highly possible that UKM has no code of ethics with regard to data collection, which wouldn't surprise me in the least bit judging by the half past six rankings our local universities currently receive.
But unfortunately, this cannot be verified, because the UKM website in general, and the Social Science and Humanities faculty website specifically, are both extremely slow to browse and I do not intend to waste any more time looking into the website of what is obviously a half past six institution that employs half past six researchers.
There goes the research endeavors in Malaysia. If ever you come across any survey, you would be better of if you check with UMNO ruling elites first as to what the right answer should be before you respond. Any wrong answer will render you and the researcher in deep shit...Malaysia is no different that North Korea. Citizens have to say the right things and do the right things as dictated and defined by the Khir and UMNO elites! And yet there is no outrage from the academic community and citizens at large. We get the government we voted for!!
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