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Originally Posted by Nodrog
Claims like this are interesting because while theyy sound plausible enough, it seems that they cant possibly be supported by any real evidence. How exactly are you going to discover the number of undiscovered rapes?
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Organizations and researchers send out 'victim surveys' to random samples just like they send out 'criminal surveys.' On these surveys people can anonymously disclose if they have been a victim of rape or not and wether or not they reported it. Now of course there are all sorts of problems with mail in surveys and anonymous surveys but they've been doing this for quite a few years now, and they've gotten very good at interpreting the results and finding patterns. Victims surveys are used in conjuction with reported (as in reported to the police) crimes and various other statistical analysis.
So they are not really 'undiscovered' rapes. Criminologist and various sociologist have pretty reliable evidence that a lot of rapes go unreported, and have a rough idea of what plausibe percentages are not reported.
On criminal surveys they ask people to report what crimes they've comitted, and if they use drugs, and etc.
Also, rape is any form of sex that isn't consentual.