Methodologies

CHAPTER IV
RESEARCH METHODOLOGY

RESEARCH DESIGN
The study that we conducted used the Qualitative Descriptive Method. Our study’s main purpose was to compare the degree of knowledge about sex between teenage males and females: age thirteen (13) to seventeen (17). We used a qualitative research because we wanted to explore, understand and prove if the myth that boys are more knowledgeable than girls when it comes to sex is actually true. Our study was also a descriptive type of research because the nature of our study focused on social behavior.

Sampling Procedure
We used the non-probability sampling, specifically, the purposive sampling. It’s a study using the non-probability method because we didn’t involve random sampling and the purpose of the study was not about generalizing a population. Our main aim was to compare the degree of knowledge about sex between teenage males and females. We chose the respondents who qualified as our respondents. We made sure we had an equal number of boy and girl respondents. We had fifteen (15) boys and fifteen (15) girls as our respondents.
Respondents

We only had age, gender and year level as the qualifications for our respondents. Their ages ranged from thirteen (13) years old to seventeen (17) years old. The respondents were all high school students coming from different schools.

Research Environment
The questionnaires were handed out in different places. Few questionnaires were handed out in the streets, where the respondents gave some of their time to answer the questionnaire. Some surveys were answered in schools. Some respondents were asked through the internet.

Data Collection
We asked for the respondents’ time to answer the questionnaires. The questionnaires were given to the qualified respondents. We maintained one (1) foot distance away from the respondents to give them privacy and for them to be comfortable in answering the questionnaire. In distributing the questionnaires in schools, we let the qualified respondent sit and answer the questionnaire for eight (8) minutes. We made sure that respondents had enough distance from the other respondents to avoid cheating or copying of answers. The respondents who were asked through the internet were given a copy sent through e-mail. We asked them to answer as honestly as they could, and to avoid searching in the online web. Once answers were sent back to us, we took them down.

Data Analysis
The “sex quiz” part of the surveys, containing thirteen (13) questions was checked. As soon as the scores were calculates, we totaled the sum of the scores of the boys and got their average. Same with the boys, we also added the scores of the girls and got their average. We then compared which group garnered the biggest score.

Data Treatment
The statistical treatment that we used was the chi square test because our sampling procedure is non-probability and it didn’t represent a population. We tested the difference between the degree of knowledge of teenage boys and teenage girls.

X2 = ∑ (f(a) - f(e))2 / f(e)

Where:
X2 = chi square
∑= summation of
f(a) = actual number of the observation cell
f(e) = expected number of the observation cell in a theoretical distribution