If 12% of campus sexual assaults are reported, then 1 in 39 women are sexually assaulted at U. of MN, not 1 in 5

Submitted by Mastodon on Mon, 2016-01-25 04:30

Article here. Excerpt:

'This is an update of a post that appeared on CD last March.

In a January 2014 report titled “Rape and Sexual Assault: A Renewed Call to Action” (which led to the creation of the “White House Task Force to Protect Students from Sexual Assault” headed by Vice-President Joe Biden), the White House made the following two claims:

White House Claim 1. Sexual assault is a particular problem on college campuses: 1 in 5 women has been sexually assaulted while in college (pages 1, 2, 10, 14).

White House Claim 2. Reporting rates for campus sexual assault are also very low: on average only 12% of student victims report the assault to law enforcement (page 14).

I’ve reported previously on CD many times that there’s a huge, irreconcilable problem here. If the second claim about under-reporting of campus sexual assault is even close to being accurate, it means that nowhere near 1 in 5 women are sexually assaulted while in college. ...'

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