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"Studies where they call people up, ask for the 'woman of the house', and ask who hits who more, consistently -- and across cultures -- say that women themselves admit they hit more often. It's just that most men would never call the cops on their own wife. So the Justice Department stats always show more assaults on wives than on husbands. Even the Justice Department itself admits that."

Wrong, again.

The survey consists of telephone interviews with a nationally representative sample of 8,000 U.S. women and 8,000 U.S. men about their experiences with intimate partner violence.

http://www.vawnet.org/Intersections/GeneralResearch/NIJ_IPV.php

The survey consists of telephone interviews with a nationally representative sample of 8,000 U.S. women and 8,000 U.S. men about their experiences with intimate partner violence.

Not quite. Although this survey is advertised as "nationally representative," the study had actually very a shoddy sampling method, resulting in a very poor response rate of 56% (64% for women and only 52% for men). [Source: TJADEN, P. & THOENNES, N. (2000a) “Prevalence and Consequences of Male -to-Female and Female-to-Male Intimate Partner Violence as Measured by the National Violence Against Women Survey”, Violence Against Women, 6(2):142-161.]

Thus the survey's numbers only provide a rough estimate of prevelance of victimization, not a precise one.