IT’S 2019. Time For Another Yearly Bogus Campus Sexual Assault Survey
It seems like at least once a year we’re subjected to another claim that women on college campuses in America are at an exponentially higher risk of sexual assault than the world’s most dangerous countries. Scientists often talk about the need for a study to be replicated to prove its results, but as we’ve seen time and time again with sexual assault surveys (that’s what they actually are) a flawed survey can be replicated a thousand times using the same flawed and disingenuous methods.
As I’ve written multiple times, surveys that use an overly broad definition of sexual assault are guaranteed to get large, headline-inducing, numbers. The latest version of this debunked survey method comes from the Association of American Universities. Outside of the frightening headlines, the survey, like all others of its kind, does not really show what it is purported to show. One of the major things to keep in mind with these studies is that they are so often not representative of the national population. This study points that out, and also states that studies that have looked into the matter have found that students are safer than non-students.
One interesting finding in this survey that didn’t get a lot of media attention is related to certain findings showing how men are victims. There are more problems with the survey, however, as Greg Piper at The College Fix reported. As I mentioned earlier, the broad definition of sexual misconduct helps pump up the numbers in these surveys to terrifying levels. Piper goes on to note, schools across the country have treated “any alcohol consumption by an accuser as strong evidence that she (and it’s invariably “she” in heterosexual disputes) could not consent.”
dailywire-Ashe Schow
