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My point is that you have to know your pooled participants - which we don't - and that is easily manipulated. I had to do surveys in college as well I can tell you I wasn't truthful on all of them and I doubt I'm the only one especially when you're young and filling them out around your friends. 'Force' being ill-defined makes it ambiguous and can mean any form of force that your brain can think up. Most people don't take random surveys as serious as college entrance exams if they even take them at all.
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Fair point, college kids are dumb
[You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.] But like I said I was just giving an example with that study, so if people want to hate on it I'm happy to drop it (there's plenty of other ways to demonstrate that there is some element of "rape culture" in American culture).
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As for the 1 in 6 number, I'm assuming you're referring to the 1995-1996 'Violence against women survey' published by the National Institute of Justice in 1998. There is a lot of interesting information there and some of it seems legit.
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There have been several reasonably recent studies looking at the issue (which is why I keep saying that the exact number varies depending on who you ask). But yes that's certainly a good one.
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I was impressed with the directness of the questions until I got to the last one in the 'rape' section. 'Has anyone, male of female, ever attempted to make you have vaginal, oral, or anal sex against your will but intercourse or penetration did not occur?'
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Ok, but it does matter if a guy tries to rape a woman and isn't successful right? Attempted rapes are still valuable information if you want to talk about rape in our society. So you can quibble over the exact wording of that particular study, and maybe it could be clearer, but I don't fault them for trying to find relevant information out.
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Interesting fact from the survey: You are almost twice as likely to be the recipient of rape if you are an American Indian or Alaskan Native than if you're black. Check the facts and see what I did there.
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This is because of a sad legal reality. The way the laws used to work (I think they're working to fix this so it's probably less true now) a non-native American man could rape a Native American woman, and as long as it happened on the reservation there was no way to prosecute him as long as he made it off the reservation.
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. <3 loramin for being a good sport.
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Aww thanks, <3 you too
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