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To: Olog-hai

There is a logical fallacy in this argument. The colleges report they haven’t investigated any recent rapes, and the author assumes that there are rapes that have gone uninvestigated, ignoring the possibility that there may have been no rapes to investigate at those campuses.

The oft-touted figure by feminists, that “1 in 5” women is sexually assaulted at college was simply made up from thin air. Rapes on campus are much, much less common than that, if you look at the actual numbers:

“During the years surveyed, 1995-2002, the DOJ found that there were six rapes or sexual assaults per thousand per
year.”

http://www.usnews.com/opinion/blogs/economic-intelligence/2013/10/24/statistics-dont-back-up-claims-about-rape-culture

So, if you go to college for 4 years, you have a 24 in 1000 (or 1 in 42) chance of being raped or sexually assaulted, and we know that not all of those are actually reported. So, at least some of these colleges might just not have had any reported incidents to investigate.


11 posted on 07/09/2014 7:05:39 PM PDT by Boogieman
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To: Boogieman

It’s lower than that.
You should not include ‘sexual assaults’ with rape.
Every campus reports their rape statistics. You can get them from the university.

The incidence of rap is very low.


12 posted on 07/09/2014 7:24:29 PM PDT by Pikachu_Dad (Impeach Sen Quinn)
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To: Boogieman

https://sites01.lsu.edu/wp/lsupd/files/2010/12/2012-Statistics.pdf


13 posted on 07/09/2014 7:27:46 PM PDT by Pikachu_Dad (Impeach Sen Quinn)
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To: Boogieman

Report list 12 in 3 years.
Population 30,000 say 15,000 women

So closer to 1 in 1,000 for three years.


15 posted on 07/09/2014 7:30:37 PM PDT by Pikachu_Dad (Impeach Sen Quinn)
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