Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site watmath.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!saquigley 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 Article-I.D.: watmath.10193 Posted: Thu Dec 6 22:52:42 1984 Date-Received: Fri, 7-Dec-84 02:34:51 EST References: <10011@watmath.UUCP> <1330@sdcc7.UUCP> Organization: U of Waterloo, Ontario Lines: 20 > 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 ...!{clyde,ihnp4,decvax}!watmath!saquigley