Thread by @DrJessTaylor

Well, now that everyone is an expert in research methods, sampling and presentation of data, I cannot wait to watch you all retract your use of the UN stat which reported ‘97% of all women are sexually harassed’ based on 1089 self selecting women aged 18-25 years old.

Funny how everyone was perfectly happy to use that without even reading the original report (which I did) to find that their findings were only relevant to 18-25yr olds, which YouGov and UN reported as a generalised stat for all women. So did the media. Yet, no uproar. At all.

Here’s another - not the mention that the stat was on the TV and in media for weeks. In parliament by several MPs. It was generalised to our entire population by every single media outlet including BBC and Sky.
No one gave a shit did they.

The major difference here is that this stat actually misled millions of people - and no one cares.

Our work has been attacked for days and yet every single page of our work and every single infographic stated the sample size and age.

So... it’s ok for YouGov and UN to do it?

This is why it’s so obvious that this is personal attacks and misogyny. No one scrutinises YouGov and UN. No one will scrutinise the self-selecting sample used for all govt consultations on VAWG.

But suddenly it’s such an issue for our work. Consistency would be appreciated.

We are being accused of doing something we haven’t done - but the UN and YouGov actually did do it with their study and no one gives a shit 😂