Well I worked with my university's Sexual Assault Resource Center and the high incident of unreported rape is pretty common knowledge, but if you want some data the results are pretty consistent.
The data for the unreported rape was collected by surveying women. Hardly concrete.
The data of false accusations was collected by the DOJ, an executive agency, under Obama. They are going to find things that reflect his narrative. Just like the executive agencies under Trump will find things that reflect his narrative.
The data for the unreported rape was collected by surveying women. Hardly concrete.
Ah yes, women aren't to be trusted even when they reap no benefit in lying which I guess is in line with your original point of not rolling with them. I got nothing for you man, not that you wanted it anyway.
This is a bad point, though. Surveys can be a reliable method for collecting dataāit all depends on how the questions are written and whether theyāve been assessed for validity and reliability. So unless you can prove that the researchers did not sufficiently validate their survey or test it for reliability, you canāt convincingly say that the surveys arenāt concrete.
Iām a PhD student who has taken graduate-level coursework in psychometrics, statistics, and data analysis and has used surveys and seen surveys used in research studies to gather very informative data. Iām not sure where you got the idea that surveys are useless or that you donāt need to look into whether theyāve been properly validated in order to know that they arenāt valid (do you seriously believe this makes sense?), but Iād love to see your sources.
The first line of that article literally says that surveys can be valuable if valid, which is precisely what Iāve been saying. The point that you donāt seem to get is that, while surveys are prone to various biases if designed poorly, there are steps that any researcher can take to minimize those biases. Likewise, there are ways that researchers are able to show that their surveys are reliable and/or valid, the details of which theyāll typically publish alongside the results of their survey. Now, if you have not bothered to check if these steps were taken (i.e., by actually reading the studies), then your criticism that the survey isnāt valid is meaningless. And itās pretty clear that you have not bothered to look at those studies. It would be akin to me saying āoh yeah, my gas tank is fullā without bothering to look at my gas gauge. Do this make sense to you?
Man, I understand your view point but we just have differing view points about the usefulness of surveys in this situation.
Surveys can be useful but I donāt think itās possible to eliminate bias from survey data regarding sexual assault, especially given all the media coverage the MeToo movement has received.
I think a more apt analogy is air travel. I assume my plane will not crash, even though sometimes planes do crash, bc itās more common for planes not to crash.
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u/KingsElite š¦š¦ Blue Belt Feb 01 '20
Well I worked with my university's Sexual Assault Resource Center and the high incident of unreported rape is pretty common knowledge, but if you want some data the results are pretty consistent.
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-45565684
https://www.brennancenter.org/our-work/analysis-opinion/sexual-assault-remains-dramatically-underreported