3 ms·
Other studies used completely unscientific methods (starting with VERY small sample size, also, extending the definition to include sexual assault, which could
by jazzyk 11y ago
Other studies used completely unscientific methods (starting with VERY small sample size, also, extending the definition to include sexual assault, which could be verbal abuse, or anything really).
Relevant quote:
"The one-in-five estimate, on the other hand, comes from the federally funded Campus Sexual Assault Study (CSA), a 2006 web survey of more than 5,000 women and 1,000 men attending two unnamed, large public universities.
As Yoffe points out, two campuses is an awfully small sample.
Christopher Krebs, a senior researcher at a non-profit research group, RTI International, who led the Campus Sexual Assault Study, acknowledges that. “The one-in-five statistic is not anything we trotted out as a national statistic,” he says. “But it has certainly been used in that way” — most prominently by President Obama. "
https://www.themarshallproject.org/2014/12/11/the-dueling-data-on-campus-rape#.uNmrZiIyb https://www.themarshallproject.org/2014/12/11/the-dueling-da...