Posted on 01/13/2015 7:36:25 AM PST by SeekAndFind
Headlines citing a study finding one in three college men would rape a women if they could get away with it are splashed all over Feminist Internet — despite the fact that this stat is based on a survey of just 73 guys at the University of North Dakota.
These headlines seem like a pretty big jump: “Study: 1 in 3 Men Would Rape if They Wouldn’t Get Caught or Face Consequences” (Cosmopolitan), “Study Finds That a Third of College Men Would Rape if They Could Get Away With It (Feministing), “1 in 3 Male University Students Would Sexually Assault a Woman “If They Could Get Away With It” (Crave Online), and “1 in 3 College Men Admit They Would Rape If We Don’t Call it ‘Rape’” (Jezebel).
As the Jezebel headline suggests, the details of the study reveal that while 31.7 percent of respondents said they would act on “intentions to force a woman to sexual intercourse” if they could get away with it, only 13.6 percent of them said they would act on “intentions to rape a woman” under the same circumstances. This means that 23 guys said they would force sex on someone if they could, and 13 guys perhaps did not realize that this would be rape.
The fact that anyone would say these things is obviously disturbing — but so is representing something so serious disingenuously. Seventy-three men from a single college do not accurately represent the views of “college men.” A survey at one school is of course not representative, and such a small sample size statistically means the 31.7 percent number could probably be off by double digits.
Sure, the outlets eventually explain how small the study was in the body of their posts. But we live in an age where most people don’t read beyond headlines or tweets. This is how false information spreads. Many people will see this “news” and assume that it represents the views of college men in general, because that is what these headlines (falsely) assert.
This movement’s repeated use of these tactics, like the debunked one-in-five-sexually-assaulted statistic, will eventually discredit it — something that is particularly devastating when we’re talking about an issue as serious as rape.
— Katherine Timpf is a reporter at National Review Online.
Still... not sending any daughter to the University of North Dakota.
Or a son.................
President Obama’s own Department of Justice completed a six-year study on college rape, and it turns out that instead of 1-in-5 college coeds being raped, the figure is 0.03-in-5. Less than 1 percent of college students are the victim of a sexual assault — 0.6 percent to be exact — not to be confused with the 20 percent, or “one in five,” claimed by feminists and President Obama. — Ann Coulter
. . . during an interview conducted at a weekend frathouse party after all were sufficiently inebriated.
and 1 in 2 would rob a bank if they thought they could get away with it....
meaningless drivle...
Real data show 0.6 percent of women on college campuses are actually raped.
That’s 6 out of 1000.
...different that 1 out of 3......
Who ever answers a sex survey honestly?
If you have confidence in confidentiality (and you shouldn’t), why not boast/brag? If you don’t, why answer anything honestly?
It reminds me of a sex/drugs survey given to my kids in middle school. The best answer on a sexual experience question came from one of their friends, “Do animals count?”
Well I guess that just tears it.
Proof that all men are predatory pigs. /s
Completely wrong, but it illustrates two things:
1. Feminazis hating men and losing their ability to reason.
2. Surveys in general. Sampling a segment of the population and applying the results to the entire population.
I hope your screen name is just a coincidence...
Fake but accurate.
Good one!
The entire spectrum of “woman as victim” agendas last year and this year will continue into 2016 as it is 2016 that they are all really all about - laying cultural groundwork for supporting someone in their presidential bid.
The facts do not matter, as they never do to Progressives; its always all about perceptions, the perceptions they work so hard to create in people’s minds.
In vino veritas
Hillary-Willie Bookmark
Men’s “need” for sex is abominable to me. I have read so many articles that why men marry is for the sex. What about building a family, a home base? No. Don’t care. It’s all about the sex and if this is true, the jerks in college don’t mind just taking it if it is not freely given.
Sounds like a war on men
Gee, If I could rob fort knox and get away with it...
I would answer the same way...
Whole premise of the survey is bogus...
Would you make an attempt to engage in sexual intercourse with a woman you met on campus? Yes? Oh, “intentions to force a woman to sexual intercourse”
Would you continue if she said no? Oh, okay... “intentions to rape a woman”
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