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> You are conflating a university study with all women

Are they? Yes, that figure comes up in campus studies, but there's not-too-dissimilar numbers for the general population. For instance, RAINN cites a 1998 NIJ/CDC survey as saying that about 1 in 6 American women had “been the victim of an attempted or completed rape” in their lifetimes. https://www.rainn.org/statistics/victims-sexual-violence

> the 1 in 5 number comes from a study

There's more than one campus sexual assault study which gives a figure in that range. Which one are you referring to?




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