Archived Study: 89% of colleges reported zero campus rapes in 2015 (archive.is)
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Archived Study: 89% of colleges reported zero campus rapes in 2015 (archive.is)
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[–] Foralltoosee 2 points 1 point 3 points (+3|-2) ago
See, this is why they should just stick with being honest, because the truth sucks too. 11% of college campuses had reported rapes in a year? That's terrible. That's worth making noise about. The article was clearly written from the perspective of someone who wants a high(er) number for more shock value, but 11% of our higher education institutions reporting rapes so tied to their school that the school kept a report instead of letting the police handle it is pretty fucking high as it is. Why bother inflating the number?
[–] Gorillion 0 points 3 points 3 points (+3|-0) ago
Rapes or "Rapes"?
The Boy who cried Wolf is now The Girl who cried Rape.
[–] Thisismyvoatusername [S] 0 points 1 point 1 point (+1|-0) ago
How can you determine that is high? It is not as though that means 100% of the women at 11% of universities reported being raped. It depends on how many reports there were on those 11% of campuses. Bear in mind that 11% of schools represents a female student population in the hundreds, or at least tens, of thousands. Meanwhile, 89% of campuses had no reports at all.
[–] Foralltoosee 0 points 1 point 1 point (+1|-0) ago
It's not something I can really quantify I guess. I don't have a scale where I would determine something like what percentages are high vs. low. And yeah, I understand that it the university would be counted with a single report; I figure that the majority of the schools counted do in fact have a single report for the year. That's a lot. It's a lot of instances of rape in what should be one of our most cherished and protected institutions. And I would just define 'a lot' as far more than I would expect to see if everything were going as it should.
I'm not saying it's some 'rape culture' nonsense. Most often it's some fucking black asshole who got in on a sports scholarship and thinks it's entitled to act as it pleases because it's typically free from punishment. That's part of the whole "not protecting it" bit I mentioned.