Also found in the Koss study, although not widely reported, was the statistic that of the women whom she classified as being raped (although 73% refused to self-classify the event as rape), 46% of them had subsequent sex with the reported assailant.
You say this in the context of "taking apart the study" that suggests one in four women have been sexually assaulted and one in six raped. What does mentioning the 46% figure have to do with anything? The obvious reading is that you think the 1 in 6 number is overblown partially because 46% of them subsequently had sex with the reported assailant, ie you disagree that some of the cases counted as rape were actually rape. You might prefer to move them into a grey area instead. Is that a fair interpretation?
"I didn't say that they were liars"
You link to this article, which explicitly claims that the rate is false rape claims is probably close to 50%. Did you mean to only endorse a subset of the statistical conclusions made in it, rather than all of them?
Power management, mobile and firmware developer on Linux. Security developer at Aurora. Ex-biologist. mjg59 on Twitter. Content here should not be interpreted as the opinion of my employer. Also on Mastodon.
![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
no subject
Date: 2012-11-04 08:27 pm (UTC)Quoting from your first email:
You say this in the context of "taking apart the study" that suggests one in four women have been sexually assaulted and one in six raped. What does mentioning the 46% figure have to do with anything? The obvious reading is that you think the 1 in 6 number is overblown partially because 46% of them subsequently had sex with the reported assailant, ie you disagree that some of the cases counted as rape were actually rape. You might prefer to move them into a grey area instead. Is that a fair interpretation?
"I didn't say that they were liars"
You link to this article, which explicitly claims that the rate is false rape claims is probably close to 50%. Did you mean to only endorse a subset of the statistical conclusions made in it, rather than all of them?