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From: saquigley@watmath.UUCP (Sophie Quigley)
Newsgroups: net.women
Subject: Re: Only a few nuts rape?
Message-ID: <10193@watmath.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 6-Dec-84 22:52:42 EST
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Posted: Thu Dec  6 22:52:42 1984
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> In article <10011@watmath.UUCP> saquigley@watmath.UUCP (Sophie Quigley) writes:
> >I cam across an interesting figure the other day.  It was unfortunately...
> 
> >The figure was in this month's Harper's Index, and was the following:
> >Percentage of college men who say they might commit rape if there were
> >no chance of being caught: 35
> >
> >If this is not a sham, and the studies done were serious, this is a pretty
> >scary figure.  ...
> 
> It is hard to say whether the study was conducted in a valid way, because
> you didn't mention how it was conducted.  I know from experience that

The reason I didn't mention anything was that the only information
I had was the line I quoted directly from the Harper's Index, which
is a one page collection of statistics that comes up every month in Harper's.
I did ask in my original article whether people had more details on the study.

Sophie Quigley
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