The U.S. Department of Justice has released a report entitled “Rape and Sexual Assault Victimization Among College-Age Females, 1995-2013.”  In light of the Rolling Stone and Lena Dunham controversies, the DOJ report is getting some media attention. But the report simply does not answer the question at hand, nor can it.  Nor can any report.  The public and policymakers are going to eventually need to understand that we will never, ever know the real rate of sexual assaults in any demographic group, never mind among the populace as a whole. The DOJ report is both unscientific and irresponsible in its reporting.  The report's language does not appropriately address the uncertainty in the underlying data.  Witness the first paragraph of the report: For the period 1995-2013, females ages 18 to 24 had the highest rate of rape and sexual assault victimizations compared to females in all other age groups. Within the 18 to 24 age group,...(Read Full Article)