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

Leave the media coverage alone for a minute.

What constitutes consent, and in turn constitutes sexual assault, is subjective.

Is there a better way to measure non-consensual sexual encounters than to ask the people whose consent it is to give how often they gave it and how often they didn't? If not, why not? Why is there no trust here?

If 150,000 college kids said they had at one point contracted an STD, would anyone dispute it?

 

Not if the students were from Ohio State.

 

There's a better way to get a percentage.

And, it is subjective. So, it's not a a definitive number when only one participant in the activity can define what happened as sexual assault and/or sexual misconduct.

And, when bringing further attention and funding to the issue is a huge deal on college campuses, I think a percentage of women who choose to reply to this kind of survey may have motivations to show this problem as larger than it may be.

It's become a political issue, and if you give people the resources to draw attention to their political issue, some of them will take advantage of that.

 

It's not the number MC, it's the translation of that number into a rate. Suppose I gave a survey to 500,000 college kids and 150,000 of them responded. Further suppose that among the respondents, only 1,500 admitted ever having had an STD. Would it be reasonable to then infer that only 1% of college students have ever had an STD?

 

Ok. How?

It only takes one participant to give, not give, or withdraw consent. Plus, no one is getting prosecuted off this data, so one might argue it's actually a clearer picture than you'd get otherwise.

 

So this is like claiming 20 percent of men beat their wives and girlfriends after the Super Bowl? Which we all found out later was a farce.

 

It's not the size of the sample, it's whether it is representative. What if 50 percent of those who responded were women's studies majors? Might that bias the sample?

 

You can major in women's studies? Damn, where was that when I was in college? I've been studying women since I was 13.

 

Of course, I still haven't figured them out yet.

 

The percentage of college women, according to the survey, who have had "unwanted penetrative sex": 3.2 percent.

AAU Campus Sexual Assault Survey: Why such surveys don’t paint an accurate portrait of life on campus.

Of course, the actual number is likely much lower, because of the self-selecting bias of the survey.

Percentage of college women who have been sexually assaulted, according to the Justice Department's statistics: Less than 1 percent.