In earlier times they had no statistics, and so they had to fall back on lies
Yesterday1 I saw an interesting argument taking place in my twitter feed and couldn’t let it go without comment2. For the purposes of this post, we are going to refer to the twitter author in question as Professor Twitter. So how did this all start? Professor Twitter posted the following: MRA @reddit thread encourages men … Read more
Recently1 Scott Greenfield over at Simple Justice sent me a tweet asking my thoughts on Dara Lind’s article on false rape allegations. After taking a quick read through, I was fairly dismissive of it. Much to her credit, upon seeing the twitter exchange between myself and Scott, Dara immediately corrected the error in her piece. … Read more
In Part 1 we talked about the reasons the authors felt some of the existing research was not credible. They wrapped up their critique of the Kanin study with the following quote (and if you read Part 1, you can probably guess who they are going to cite): As a result of these and other … Read more
As it turns out, only 7.8% of rape reports are true. I know that may seem hard to believe, but I didn’t just make it up. Technically, it is completely true. It is also completely horse shit. It is so misleading and built upon so many undisclosed caveats, that most people would consider it as good as … Read more
I originally intended to cover a few more topics before coming back sexual assault statistics, but with the the release of the Columbia Journalism Review report and the Nungesser lawsuit (as well as mattress graduation) since my last post, I had a few more post topics. The first of which deals with problem of trying to … Read more
If you were watching ABC’s Nightline this past weekend, you would have seen this segment on the new campus sexual assault documentary The Hunting Ground. About 4 minutes into the segment, you would have gotten to the supposed FBI statistic I discussed in How To Lie And Mislead with Rape Statistics: Part 1. Here is a … Read more