UVA and the alleged frat rape - Rolling Stone backpedals

Yes, he wrote it before the story was debunked.

But, hey, the issue is more important than the facts:

“Jackie’s story was not the focus, only the setup for commentary on institutional conflict of interest in adjudicating sexual assault, an issue that did not disappear with the credibility of the article,” he emailed. “Not even UVA has claimed otherwise.”

http://www.slate.com/blogs/the_slat...nesbury_cartoonist_blames_long_lead_time.html

 

One in five?

That CDC study also found that just 37 percent of rapes committed against women occur when they are of college age. Most women who are raped, according to the CDC, were victimized before they turned 18, not when they were in college.
Not only are college aged women not the most likely women to be raped, but according to University of Colorado Denver criminology professor Callie Marie Rennison, women aged 18 to 24 who do not attend college are victims of sexual violence 30 percent more often than those that do attend college.

So not only are college aged women not the most likely age group of women to be raped, but those women of college age who are in not in college are far more likely to be victimized then those in college.

http://townhall.com/tipsheet/connca...supported-by-the-scientific-evidence-n1937171

 

Can you please stop conflating rape and sexual assault?

 

Shouldn't you be addressing your comment to the advocacy groups that do so on a regular basis?

 

No, the advocacy groups know the difference.

http://rapecrisiscnm.org/faq/86-what-is-the-difference-between-rape-and-sexual-assault

You don't (want to).

 

Posture all you want, cran ... as has been pointed out multiple times both here and elsewhere, the one-in-five statistic is nonsense. Period.

 

You may not agree with the broadness of the definition of sexual assault. I don't think we define it broadly enough.

Ask a woman who has to ride a crowded subway train everyday. She may be able to help you.

 

Even under the broad definitions, the one-in-five statistic is nonsense.

 

No it isn't.

 

Math ain't your thing, is it?

OK, so it's only nonsense if your definition of "order of magnitude" is overly narrow.

 

or·der of mag·ni·tude
noun
noun: order of magnitude; plural noun: orders of magnitude
1) in general mathematics, a class in a system of classification determined by size, each class being a number of times (usually ten) greater or smaller than the one before.
2) in message-board discussions of current events, a scalar of a statistic that varies from 10^-n to 10^+n, with n determined by the contortions required to validate the user's assertion.

 

I don't understand the subway thing. Just looking at someone is assault?