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A Final Word on Lisak

By K.C. Johnson

As I noted in my previous posts, Duke women?s center director Ada Gregory, in her damage-control letter to the Chronicle, cited the work of researcher David Lisak to bolster her . . . provocative . . . claim that elite universities face a particular threat from potential rapists because these institutions house more intelligent people than the general public.As I also noted in my previous posts, not only did Lisak?s articles and papers that I read fail to prove this claim, but they provided no basis for it at all?Lisak did not mention rapists? IQ or intelligence in the writings that I read.Below are the synopses of Lisak?s other articles discussing his studies of rape and sexual assault. And, keep in mind, Lisak is hardly out-of-step ideologically with people like Gregory or the Group of 88, since he has endorsed a claim (that no actual crime figures support) that roughly 40 million American women have been victims of sexual assault...continue to full post

Full post as published by Durham-in-Wonderland on September 14, 2009 (boomark / email).