The survey defined “offensive body language” and “being continually asked out for dates after you already said ‘No'” as harassment and “criticizing my […] attractiveness” as coercion.

Matt Lamb at The College Fix has the story:

SEXUAL ASSAULT SURVEY: Demographics, definitions, phrasing could skew results

A new report on sexual assault by University of Oregon researchers claims that sorority women are twice as likely to be sexually assaulted as non-sorority women and more than three times as likely to be the victim of rape or attempted rape.

It also says that one in 10 women at the school have been raped.

What may be most notable about the survey, though, are its definitions, response rate and composition of respondents.

‘Self-selection’ and missed targets

The survey’s main takeaway at the school and in the media has been the sexual risks of Greek life. It claims that almost 50 percent of sorority women are victims of “non-consensual sexual experiences” along with about 25 percent of fraternity members, findings that led a school task force to propose a halt to the expansion of Greek organizations.

Yet as previously reported by The College Fix, the survey included twice as many women as men and was filled out by roughly 5 percent of the student population. The most prevalent category of sexual violence, according to the raw figures, was “fondling,” accounting for about 28 percent of women, followed by attempted vaginal assault at 12.5 percent.

The preliminary results released by Jennifer Freyd, a UO psychology professor and sexual violence expert, and her team showed they missed their survey targets.

Aiming for a survey population that was 53 percent women and 63 percent white, responding students were instead 66 percent women and 74 percent white. Students ages 18-19 were overrepresented and those ages 22-23 underrepresented, both by several percentage points.