Ivy League Statistics on Campus Sex Offenses

One comment questioned statistics. 

Elizabeth • 1:46 PM Tuesday October 7, 2014

It should be noted that Harvard's 2012 student enrollment (according to Google) was over 28,000. Yale's (again, according to Google) was just shy of 12,000. This means that Harvard's PER STUDENT sexual offense rate (using rounded figures) was 1 per 700 students. Yale's was 1 offense per 375 students. Let's be wary of how data can be used to manipulate truths.

My reply to above comment was deleted without noting that it was deleted. Editors note other deleted comments saying "This comment was deleted." No entry for my reply, which asked if the wariness "of how data can be used to manipulate truths" should be applied to Provost Steven Hyman's statistics about rape on Harvard University's campus.

[From article]

Forty instances of forced sexual contact on or near campus were reported to the Harvard University Police Department and other local law enforcement in 2013, five more than any other Ivy League school, according to the department's Annual Security Report released last week.
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The report is federally mandated by the Clery Act, passed in 1965, which requires that colleges publish annual crime and fire safety statistics.

http://www.thecrimson.com/article/2014/10/7/report-sexual-offense-high/

Harvard Reports Highest Sex Offense Number in Ivy League
By MARIEL A. KLEIN

Harvard CRIMSON STAFF WRITER
October 7, 2014
UPDATED: October 7, 2014, at 2:40 a.m.