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In Reply to: RE: A cogent example of how absurd things have become... posted by mkuller on September 29, 2014 at 17:03:58:
That's the survey I thought you would cite. Did you read it?
Snippet: "The survey was anonymous and took about 15 minutes to complete. (Participants received a $10 Amazon.com certificate for participating.)
"So, first of all, it’s important to remember that this is a single survey, based on the experiences of students at two universities. As the researchers acknowledged, these results clearly can be generalized to those two large four-year universities, but not necessarily elsewhere. Moreover, the response rate was relatively low:
“Another limitation of the CSA study, inherent with Web-based survey, is that the response rates were relatively low.... the report said “sexual battery” could have included “sexual touching,” such as forced kissing or fondling."
This is poor research. Psychologist Steven Pinker notes, “Junk statistics from advocacy groups are slung around and become common knowledge, such as the incredible factoid that one in four university students has been raped. (The claim was based on a commodious definition of rape that the alleged victims themselves never accepted; it included, for example, any incident in which a woman consented to sex after having had too much to drink and regretted it afterward.)"
The National Crime Victimization Survey, which uses a narrower definition of rape, found that only 0.5% of women and 0.06% of men, age 12 or older, were raped in 1995. By 2010, these numbers had decreased to 0.2% of women and 0.01% of men.
To put that bogus 20% number in perspective: data from 2012 indicate that Detroit’s combined rate for the four violent felonies that make up the FBI’s violent-crime index — murder, rape, robbery, and aggravated assault — was 2 percent. The rape rate was 0.05 percent.
So despite the fact an alleged campus sexual-assault rate that is 400 times greater than Detroit’s, female applicants are beating down the doors of selective colleges in record numbers with their parents blessing. Curious, no?
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Follow Ups
- RE: A cogent example of how absurd things have become... - regmac 17:50:19 09/29/14 (5)
- When I Googled that report... - mkuller 18:55:44 09/29/14 (4)
- Confused in California..... - regmac 06:27:10 09/30/14 (3)
- What debate? - mkuller 10:56:33 09/30/14 (2)
- Still confused in Cali...... - regmac 13:42:59 09/30/14 (1)
- You say falsely reported, I say unreported... - mkuller 15:52:14 09/30/14 (0)
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