Twick Or Tweet: College Woman Rape Stats
Loved this, via @CHSommers:
@SalonNotCom
According to a new report released by experts in feminist statistics and applied mathermatics, 6 out of every 5 women in college are raped
The reality is, college students are less likely to be raped than other women. From a 2011 post at The Federalist:
A new report on sexual assault released today by the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) officially puts to bed the bogus statistic that one in five women on college campuses are victims of sexual assault. In fact, non-students are 25 percent more likely to be victims of sexual assault than students, according to the data. And the real number of assault victims is several orders of magnitude lower than one-in-five.The full study, which was published by the Bureau of Justice Statistics, a division within DOJ, found that rather than one in five female college students becoming victims of sexual assault, the actual rate is 6.1 per 1,000 students, or 0.61 percent (instead of 1-in-5, the real number is 0.03-in-5). For non-students, the rate of sexual assault is 7.6 per 1,000 people.
The higher rate of victimization among non-students is important due in large part to recent accusations that U.S. colleges and universities are hotbeds of so-called "rape culture," where sexual assault is endemic, and administrators and other students are happy to look the other way. The bogus "1 in 5″ statistic, which was the product of a highly suspect survey of only two universities and which paid respondents for their answers, has been repeatedly used as evidence of this pervasive rape culture on college campuses across the country.
Even more striking is that according to the BJS data, the likelihood of sexual assault has actually been trending downward across the board since 1997.
Amy, Amy, Amy. . . .
Come on, you can't use FACTS that are inconvenient to the Narrative.
It's racist/sexist/(insert perjorative-du-jour here).
Keith Glass at March 9, 2015 7:31 AM
My wife and I made the mistake of watching the "rape episodes" of Switched at Birth. Girls gets in a fight with her boyfriend, gets drunk with her ex boyfriend, ans wakes up not remembering having sex with him. At first she is remorseful, confesses to her boyfriend, etc. Then everyone else tries to convince her she was raped. At first she says no, because her ex boyfriend was too kind, but eventually becomes convinced she was raped and the title IX nazi expels her ex.
Problem is, due to her blacking out and being conscious though nit remembering (yeah right, that happens) no one knows what really happened. And, everyone forgets that absent any physical or witness evidence, it is a crime for which there should be a burden of proof.
I shudder at how many women will decide they were raped based on shows like this.
As a father of daughters, I would take real sexual assault seriously. But as a human being that should not mean making women out to be brainless and stripping men of due process.
Trust at March 9, 2015 7:57 AM
Amy,
At least put a 'trigger alert' ahead of the de-bunking article.
You have to or a 'young adult' might get their feelings hurt and not be able to turn in an assignment or take a test.
Bob in Texas at March 9, 2015 8:07 AM
The frequency of rape and sexual assault depends on how those terms are defined. If sex after a couple of beers is rape, and a creepy guy touching you on the arm is sexual assault, one-in-five is probably pretty accurate.
Rex Little at March 9, 2015 9:15 AM
Especially when the definition of "creepy guy" means "any guy I'm not attracted to, and my list of dealbreakers is 200 pages long".
Cousin Dave at March 9, 2015 9:49 AM
OMG! Can't feminists have even one day a year where misogynists don't debunk their made up bullshit!?
jerry at March 9, 2015 10:16 AM
Wasn't there a recent feminist article explaining that the use of math or statistics was "sexist"? (No I am not being sarcastic).
Jay at March 9, 2015 12:34 PM
From the article: Even more striking is that according to the BJS data...
They're collecting data on blowjobs now? I wouldn't participate; I don't like getting blowjobs.
Patrick at March 9, 2015 1:01 PM
One quibble. One in five refers to the risk over the entirety of college; they're comparing that to the one year risk. Over five years 6.1 per thousand is a risk of about 3%. I estimated 5% in my look at the subject based on the BJS, FBI and Cleary Act data.
What the studies that get 1-in-5 do wrong is a) have an incomplete sample (e.g., only people who go to a web page) and b) rewrite women's experiences for them. So they aren't asked if they've been raped. They're asked if they'd had sex under pressure or while drunk and then it's categorized as rape for them.
Mike at March 9, 2015 2:13 PM
Mike, treating the college risk year-by-year is valid. Not every person finishes school, and actually, probability = 1 only for a victim when that victim is violated.
In short, if you want to express the risk for a 4-year period, then change the criterion for persons outside of college, too.
I have experienced arguments about gun use similarly flawed by not considering factors aside from "goes to college". That doesn't automatically put anyone at risk; what it does is display willful ignorance of risk factors.
Radwaste at March 14, 2015 6:59 PM
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