LIES, DAMNED LIES. Campus Sexual Assault Stats Debunked by Ashe in One Place.
A potential draft of new federal campus sexual assault policies was leaked this week, so expect a new round of false and misleading statistics to be shared by those who claim due process “protects rapists” and “hurts victims.” I’ve taken down every one of these statistics before – sometimes many, many times – but it’s time to debunk them all in one place. So here we go…1-in-5 (or 1-in-4 or 1-in-3) Women Will Be Sexually Assaulted During College These studies are often not nationally representative, are often produced by women’s organizations determined to find women as oppressed victims in America, and are self-reported – a notoriously unreliable form of data. The Majority Of Campus Rapes Are Committed By A Small Number Of Men. This ‘study’ by David Lisak was debunked. It claims that “90%” of rapes on campus are perpetrated by a few men. For starters, Lisak didn’t conduct the study himself, but used data from studies conducted by former grad students, who didn’t limit their data to college students. False Accusations Are Rare. That statistic is wildly misleading, as it only applies to accusations made to police that are proven false. Proving a negative is often impossible, especially in a “we had sex but it was consensual” situation. On college campuses, there is no punishment for a false accusation, and thus no fear, as there is with lying to the police.
dailywire.com By Ashe Schow
