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29 April, 2008 - 11:47pm — Ginger

I would really appreciate it if you would visit this website:
www.reportitnow.org

And if it applies to you, fill out the webform.

Its for a campaign called, well, Report It. The purpose is to give visibility to how many sex crimes go unreported. So if you have ever been a victim of any kind of sexual violence, please please pleae go fill it out.

heres the official ditty about it:

The Report IT Campaign is a nationwide state-to-state rally to Report sexual violence and abuse on the same day! It was created to raise awareness on the vast under-reporting of sexual assault including rape, incest, and abuse.

Report IT exists to showcase solidarity in the movement to end sexual violence as well as a call to action to stop the systemic revictimization of victims that discourages reporting. This campaign is inclusive of men, women, children, trans-gendered and trans-sexual individuals and everyone who has ever been affected by sexual violence or abuse. You do not have to show up if you were a victim - show up if someone you care about was a victim too!

The Report IT Campaign features an anonymous online reporting system to gather statistics on the occurrences of sex crimes.

We encourage you to officially Report IT to the police as well as fill out our online form. If you are going to the police, please contact your local rape crisis center or support group so you will not go alone. If you do not have all the information about your case, if your offender is deceased, if the statute of limitations is up in your case, or if you cannot officially Report IT with the police - please fill out our online form and show up in person to the rally!

The online form is anonymous and is strictly for the Report IT campaign and will not be shared with the authorities. If your case is open, please do not share your real name and fill out the form under "Anonymous."

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30 April, 2008 - 7:26am — jeff
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Umm...

Is an anonymous unsecure webform really a valid way to collect sexual abuse statistics? They might get information, but it doesn't seem like their numbers will prove much of anything, since anyone can go there and file a claim.

Am I missing something?

Just seems like there's no point in gathering information that has no statistical validity.

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1 May, 2008 - 12:10am — Lol-taire
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how would you collect this data on a large scale?

Well no, it's not an ideal means of getting data, but it's better than nothing. Since it's a sensitive subject it's impossible to collect this information without offering anonymity.

You have to get information from somewhere and how do you record the unreported?

The point is always why would someone bother filling in a claim if it wasn't geniune? The number of people who would use the website for that purpose is negligable since there's nothing for them to gain from it.

People lie/ are led/ distort their answers in questionnaires and studies too, and there's no such things as an ideal sample since people have to volunteer themselves for studies in the first place. Data gathering involving human subjects is almost always going to have flaws in methodology, but that should be taken into account during the analysis.

If the data can be used to at very least draw some conclusions about say what sorts of abuse go unreported, then it's better that the data is collected somehow than not at all. It's not saying this will gather the definitive statistics on sexual abuse in America, it's just a way of widening the ammount of data researches have available and raising awareness of a crime that ruins so many people's lives- especially women's lives.