Marquette University implies support for Campus SaVE Act (S. 834)

mensrightactivist · 2011-06-29T12:54:45+00:00

This helps men report rape too.

PierceHarlan · 2011-06-29T13:02:32+00:00

The government study referenced in the post supposedly showing that rape is rampant on campus has been thoroughly discredited in a post we ran at my blog, False Rape Society. Here's what we wrote about that study:

Never mind the first paragraph of the Executive Summary, which reads like it was crafted by the director of a rape crisis center. And never mind that the (ahem) research was done by a bunch of academics whose objectivity can immediately be called into question. And focus instead on this little nugget:

"To recruit the students who were sampled to participate in the CSA Study, we relied on both recruitment e-mails and hard copy recruitment letters that were mailed to potential respondents. Sampled students were sent an initial recruitment e-mail that described the study, provided each student with a unique CSA Study ID#, and included a hyperlink to the CSA Study Web site. During each of the following 2 weeks, students who had not completed the survey were sent a follow-up e-mail encouraging them to participate. The third week, nonrespondents were mailed a hard-copy recruitment letter. Two weeks after the hard-copy letters were mailed, nonrespondents were sent a final recruitment e-mail. The overall response rates for survey completion for the undergraduate women sampled at the two universities were 42.2% and 42.8%, respectively."

So, in other words: THE SURVEY RESPONDENTS WERE SELF-SELECTING.

Are you kidding me?

Are you fucking kidding me?

That, to put it mildly, is Statistics 101. Covered before the mid-term, and likely before the first pop quiz.

These people are so shameless, so utterly and totally full of themselves and of their own shit, that they don’t even bother to hide their bias. Or their incompetence. Either of which a college freshman, when she’s not being sexually assaulted before Thanksgiving, should be able to discern in an instant.

In the study, they claim to have “cleaned” the data to adjust for this — as if that’s fucking possible! — but then also have the gall to suggest that, well, this method may have had the opposite effect:

"The reasons for nonresponse could affect prevalence estimates in opposing ways. Some nonrespondents (nonvictims) may have chosen not to participate because they felt that they had no relevant experience, whereas other respondents (victims) may have chosen not to participate because they anticipated that taking the survey might be upsetting to them."

You’ll excuse me, now, while I go throw up.

(P.S. These same uber-leftist loons who tout this study are the first to malign Eugene Kanin's "methodology." Most who do the maligning have never even read Kanin's report. Kanin was a feminist darling whose work was cited with approval even in the infamous Koss Report, of all things -- until he came up with a result that the sexual grievance industry didn't like. Then he became a nitwit. The point is, I haven't heard one of those geniuses even discuss the "methodology" used in this study.)

Title	Marquette University implies support for Campus SaVE Act (S. 834)
Author	thetrollking
Upvotes	1
Comments	3
Date	June 29, 2011 10:23 AM UTC (15 years ago)
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