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[quote=Anonymous][quote]Not sure what the point of the reply is. That the reported cases are unreliable?  That if Pomona suppresses reported cases, they don't exist?[/quote]

The point is that it is misleading to state "Pomona has an unusual amount of sexual violence against women" based on simply the number of reported incidents per 1000 students. The same goes for any other school on the top echelon of the list. Almost all of them are small LACs, who on the whole do not suppress reported cases. They are residential colleges who place their top priority in supporting undergraduates through any time of crisis. Larger schools do not do this, or they send survivors to work with the police in which case the incident is never listed under their database, or students there do not feel comfortable in getting the help they deserve due to a poor culture in supporting survivors of sexual assault (hence U-Oregon's discrepancy with 600 undergrads reporting being raped anonymously, but that only translating to 6 reports). I don't know what Pomona's incident to reporting ratio is, but Brown (#1 on the total reports list) is cited in the article with 43 reports and 90 incidents per the anonymous student survey. 1/2 vs. 1/100 is a huge gap, suggesting, as the article states: [i]"It also suggests that Brown may do a better job at encouraging victims to come forward than colleges with fewer rape reports. The data also may suggest that some colleges are doing a good job at protecting students -- even if evidence casts doubt on those assumptions. Hundreds of colleges and universities reported no rapes at all. "[/i]

I have a daughter who attends another LAC ranked near the top of the list, and this was something she and I looked closely into. No one wants their child to go to an unsafe school. But I would focus more on actual anecdotes from students who attend regarding the culture and level of administrative support than to pay attention to a sliver of data missing 75% of actual incidents.[/quote]

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