Depends on what you are trying to find out and what you are trying to do with that survey. If you are trying to create legal policy, yes, I'd have to agree, I don't want anyone's rights resting on a survey of that sort. But their two stated goals were:
-To educate students about various types of sexual assault, how they can maximize their safety, and what they can do if they or someone they know has been victimized.
- To provide students with information about the campus and community resources that are available should they need assistance or have any concerns or questions.
This was never meant to be picked up by politicians and used for... anything political. Don't blame the people who did the survey. Blame the politicians who tried to use a paperclip as a screwdriver.
Who do you think funds these things (largely government)? What type of statistician that knows you need a representative sample would instead go to 2 colleges and take a select group result instead (hint: the biased kind)? What kind of statistician wouldn't be on every TV blasting every politician that miss-represented their study (hint: the biased kind)? What type of people typically do studies - (hint: liberal professors)? What studies tend to come out right when something major is about to be promoted - in this case title IX reforms to remove protections from the accused - (hint: those linked with government groups with an agenda).
Any group that lets their “study” - which was already crap - which if you knew anything about stats would know this - be used far beyond the purpose of the study without getting in front of a mic and/or shouting on Twitter, Facebook, etc that this isn’t the result of the study, is not an unbiased group. This study was done with the sole purpose to create more soy boys and to remove basic protections from men when they were accused on campus.