Re: 1 in 5
Researchers just make this stuff up as they go along. Basically by expanding the definition of "sexual assault" to mean anything they want. Or at least make the definition as loose as is required to get the percentage they've already decided on.
Same as the statistic that claims that 1 in x women have been abused in their lives. I always imagine that, for the researchers, a woman who did not get the pony she wanted when she was 11 years old counts as abuse to them.
But the main trick they use is that, when creating the statistic they use a very loose definition, but when it comes to actually creating a narrative by giving examples they will use real examples. For example they will include a man inadvertently bumping into a women as "sexual assault" when creating the statistic, but when giving an example they will use the case of a woman who was actually raped. This is done to intentionally mislead the public into believing that 1 in 5 have experienced something like the woman in the example given. But this is a lie.
Researchers just make this stuff up as they go along. Basically by expanding the definition of "sexual assault" to mean anything they want. Or at least make the definition as loose as is required to get the percentage they've already decided on.
Same as the statistic that claims that 1 in x women have been abused in their lives. I always imagine that, for the researchers, a woman who did not get the pony she wanted when she was 11 years old counts as abuse to them.
But the main trick they use is that, when creating the statistic they use a very loose definition, but when it comes to actually creating a narrative by giving examples they will use real examples. For example they will include a man inadvertently bumping into a women as "sexual assault" when creating the statistic, but when giving an example they will use the case of a woman who was actually raped. This is done to intentionally mislead the public into believing that 1 in 5 have experienced something like the woman in the example given. But this is a lie.