There’s too much misinformation on this subject out there.

Blake Neff of the Daily Caller reports.

Major Study On Campus Sex Assault Debunked

A college professor’s research on campus sexual assault that was used by the Obama administration to justify sweeping action on college sexual assault has been called into question in a pair of articles published by Reason magazine.

David Lisak, a retired psychology professor who taught at the University of Massachusetts Boston, has for years been regarded as one of the top academic experts on the matter of sexual assault on campus. In particular, Lisak’s paper “Repeat Rape and Multiple Offending Among Undetected Rapists” is responsible for promoting the theory that the vast majority of college rapes (about 90 percent) are committed by serial offenders, who systematically prey on victims and commit an average of six rapes apiece. Lisak’s paper, based on a survey taken by 1,882 men, identified 120 men as admitting to committing rape based on their description of their past sexual behavior. Lisak classified 76 of these men as repeat rapists; it was from this sample of 76 men that Lisak extrapolated his key findings about campus sexual assault.

The paper’s conclusion that most rape is committed by serial predators isn’t an idle academic point. It’s been used, by Lisak and others, to argue the colleges must use a far tougher approach in finding and expelling suspected sexual predators. Lisak’s work went against widespread beliefs that college rape was more mild, as far as rapes go, involving intoxicated individuals crossing lines that were blurry in the first place. If that were the cause, then the way to prevent campus sexual assault would mostly rely on education and encouraging healthier behaviors.