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 Wouldnt 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 Dont 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 dont 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 movements repeated use of these tactics, like the debunked one-in-five-sexually-assaulted statistic, will eventually discredit it something that is particularly devastating when were talking about an issue as serious as rape.
Katherine Timpf is a reporter at National Review Online.
The ones who did pick up dates had better things to do than take a survey.
Don't forget that the sample needs to be representative as well.
If it's truly random and big enough, it's representative (although simple random sampling doesn't get you to "big enough" as quickly as stratified random smapling).
Been there, done that and no interest in going back. My observations is that, more often, it magnifies their behavior.
Generous people become overly generous. I sure loved those kind of customers when I worked as a cabdriver during college. Rude and lewd people become more rude and lewd. Loose women become looser and jackasses become bigger jackasses.
IOW, in vino veritas.
Men aren’t the same as women. Big shock, I know.
Men are considerably more hardwired to go after sex than women. Most men control it most of the time, and I think they should get some credit for that.
Sure it’s shallow and a not entirely good aspect of manhood. But then a great many women are equally shallow, though usually in different ways.
But like any other drive, what should be concentrated on is focusing that drive in the right direction, not just telling men they’re bad for feeling it.
In my rather limited experience, most women, especially wives, spend a great deal of their time being mad at men for not being women.
The sex drive can be focused to support the family and the home, not endanger it. But not by a wife who resents her husband’s drives.
BTW, 1/3 might be a little high, but I wouldn’t be surprised if the real number isn’t somewhere close to that. Not among college men, but among the population as a whole. At least if you ask only young men.
In support of this position, I present the morons who rape a woman, or ten of them beat up some people. They video it and post it online. They’re not only not ashamed of it, they’re proud of it.
I must admit I simply cannot comprehend such a mindset. If I were really, really drunk and running with the wrong crowd, I can just barely see myself doing something similar. But I for dang sure would be utterly ashamed of myself the next day and would never want anyone to know I was involved.
. . . but only to the extent that people who love to abuse alcohol and party are representative of the population as a whole. They really aren’t.
Ordinarily I don't answer telephone polls. As a professional statistician, I know they're worthless. However, the other day I decided to have some fun with one. I kept answering in ways that would mess up their statistics. (Example: Q. In a presidential race between Jeb Bush and Hillary Clinton, which would you vote for? A. I'd vote for the Constitution Party candidate.) Anyway, the fact that so many questions involved policies to help "working families" led me to believe that the sponsor was either the Democrats or some left-wing outfit. Republicans don't talk that way, nor do people without an axe to grind.
What are you typing about?
FMCDH(BITS)
“Pray tell, are you one of the three?
Your statement is without any serious thought.
You think 1 out of 3 would do such things...does that include all of your friends?
What hogwash.
FMCDH(BITS) “
Just...WOW.
The only reason most men even live is for sex. Sex drives everything a man does and that includes tolerating a fat ugly loudmouthed mate. There are going to be a lot of lonely miserable women out there when robotics develops a realistic female for men to plug in when they need it. When the laws of nature are set back to normal, women are going to be real disappointed.
WOW you really are a woman hater....sad.
Match these guys with women who fantasize about being raped. There was some poll that stated rape was the third most common fantasy among women.
For the record, I think both polls are silly and unreliable.
FMCDH(BITS)
The uglier she gets, the louder she can rant at society for not exalting her, I suppose.
There is certainly something that defies explanation in her twisted persona and popularity. It seems that the more vulgar she gets, the more money she makes.
The web is littered with nude and pornographic pictures of her and the ones I saw while looking for that beach picture made no attempt at anything resembling artistic content. Her body, her character and her branding image are apparently as dirty as her mouth.
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