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How To Lie And Mislead With Rape Statistics: Part 1

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...

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How To Lie And Mislead With Rape Statistics: Part 2

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...

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The Lost Art of Fact Checking

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...

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Narrative in search of a statistic

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...

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What do we know about false rape allegations?

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....

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Professor Twitter and the Problem of the Low False Rape Narrative

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...

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