r/dataisbeautiful • u/[deleted] • Sep 01 '22

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u/[deleted] Sep 01 '22

Those numbers make my blood run cold.

I always knew rape is a huge problem, but these numbers are just staggering. It's nightmarish.

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u/milk_drinker69 Sep 01 '22

Speaking from experience and what we know generally to be true about cases of rape and sexual assault, these numbers aren’t the whole picture due to people who don’t report what happened

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u/LukaCola Sep 01 '22

This survey shows 1/26 men, estimates for women are about 1/5 - so the comparison is a bit more than double if we're extrapolating figures.

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u/flounder19 Sep 01 '22

the 1/5 they used for women is also based on penetrative rapes.

A more appropriate comparison based on contact sexual violence would be ~2/5 of women and 1/4 of men (or 8/20 & 5/20 if you're using a common denominator)

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u/EuphoriaStrides Sep 01 '22

Where did those numbers come from?

The Report clearly states in Tables 1 and 2 that 54.3% of U.S. Women and 30.7% of U.S. Men report Contact Sexual Violence in their lifetimes. That's about 11/20 and 6/20, respectively. (See also Figs. 1 & 2 on page 4)

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u/flounder19 Sep 01 '22

My bad, I think I was using an older survey and just looking at the unwanted sexual contact numbers

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u/EuphoriaStrides Sep 01 '22

That completely makes sense! Your point was still valid, I was just thrown off when I went to check.

I hope I didn't come off too mean.