SAVE Calls for Removal of Bogus ‘One-in-Five’ Rape Statistic from The Hunting Ground

Press release here. Excerpt:

'Stop Abusive and Violent Environments, a national organization working to end campus sexual assault, is calling on producers of The Hunting Ground to remove a rape statistic featured in the movie that is known to be false. The Hunting Ground makes the claim that 20% of college women are sexually assaulted.

Numerous authoritative sources have refuted the 20% number:

1. The U.S. Department of Justice reports a college woman’s risk of sexual assault is under 1% each year.

2. The Washington Post Fact Checker assigned a single Pinocchio to the one-in-five claim.

3. The New York Times Editorial Board described the source of the statistic as “a flawed 2007 study based on undergraduates at just two unnamed public universities.”

4. Writing in Time magazine, Christopher Krebs, lead researcher of the cited 2007 study, explained:
“First and foremost, the 1-in-5 statistic is not a nationally representative estimate of the prevalence of sexual assault, and we have never presented it as being representative.”'