Survey: MORE than 1 in 5 are victims of sexual misconduct

FWIW, I was criticizing the headline in the story, not your thread title, MC.

 

This is no less sophisticated than any number of public health surveys done on any number of serious public health topics.

 

So what? Those surveys suck, too.

 

The survey defined sexual assault and misconduct with two types of victimization. One type focused
on nonconsensual sexual contact involving two behaviors: sexual penetration and sexual touching.
Respondents were asked whether one or more of these contacts occurred as a result of four tactics:
(1) physical force or threat of physical force,(2) being incapacitated because of drugs, alcohol or being unconscious, asleep or passed out, (3) coercive threats of non-physical harm or promised rewards, and (4) failure to obtain affirmative consent. The first two tactics generally meet legal definitions of rape (penetration) and sexual battery (sexual touching). The other two tactics are violations of student codes of conduct. The second type of victimization focused on sexual harassment, stalking, and intimate partner violence (IPV). The definitions of these different tactics are provided below when data are presented on their prevalence.

Two of the tactics involved don't even meet a legal definition of sexual assault.

The failure to deliver on a "promised reward" could simply mean that the guy didn't follow through on a promise to be exclusive with the girl if they had sex. And, what percentage of sexual acts do you think includes one party obtaining "affirmative consent" from the other?

This would allow defining any sexual touching or penetration that wasn't specifically affirmatively consented to, and I'm guessing they mean verbally, as sexual assault.

 

I don't think it even goes that far. It sounds like the "promised reward" is the coercion itself. Even if it is followed through on.

 

Questions begin on page 233 of this document:

http://www.aau.edu/uploadedFiles/AA...y on Sexual Assault and Sexual Misconduct.pdf

 

What about population surveys? Do they suck too?

 

I don't know what a "population survey" is.

 

You're one of the smart people on the board. There's no way you actually believe that this is sound methodology to prove the statistic it asserts. No possible way.

 

They made no bones about not being bound by "legal definitions." They vary too much. One might even say that's part of the problem, both for accusers and the accused.

 

Current Population Survey (CPS) - A Joint Effort Between the Bureau of Labor Statistics and the Census Bureau - People and Households - U.S. Census Bureau

Its sample size: 60,000 households.