Baylor Press Release - Big 12 Conference Verification Complete

[BrewingFrog]

So, they didn't proofread their own exculpatory screed?

 

[froginmn]

How can that be true? I mean that's just mind bottling

 

[froginmn]

Send your daughter to Baylor, where she'll have only a 17% chance of unwanted touching by a faculty member.

(Unwanted touching by a student athlete was removed from the betting line)

 

[Chieves]

The number is still way too high, but leave it to Engel to not even bother fact checking

 

[Eight]

The number is still way too high, but leave it to Engel to not even bother fact checking

my understanding is that it isn't his job to check facts but to provoke, entice, and elicit click traffic

 

[froginmn]

my understanding is that it isn't his job to check facts but to provoke, entice, and elicit click traffic

Would have taken five minutes to check those facts, amirite?

 

[Paint It Purple]

Baylor response to article above:

In response to this story, Baylor said, “The statement is factually incorrect. Baylor’s 2017 Social Climate Survey Findings (page 21) actually found that only 31 percent of students who responded to this question indicated that they experienced sexual harassment by a faculty, instructor, or staff member in the form of sexist gender harassment. This covers everything from a person being treated differently because of their sex to offensive sexist remarks (e.g., she looks nice, I like her haircut or she runs like a girl), and does NOT refer to attempts to establish a romantic/sexual relationship, unwanted touching, etc.

“The 56 percent number actually refers to 56 percent of this 31 percent -- in other words, roughly 17 percent of respondents to this specific question. While 17 percent is still an unacceptable number -- and Baylor is working to improve the behavior that would cause this -- it is a far cry from 56 percent of Baylor’s entire student body.”


Read more here: https://www.star-telegram.com/sports/spt-columns-blogs/mac-engel/article220890205.html#storylink=cpy

It seems that even the 17 percent of respondents is misleading and too high a number relative to the student body. The statement references "survey respondents", and does not seem to mention that the number of respondents equals the total student body. Unless Baylor is extrapolating the survey results into the student body as a whole, then they are over stating their own problems. Kinda dumb if that's the case.

 

[ifrog]

 

[Eight]

Would have taken five minutes to check those facts, amirite?

why worry about being right when being wrong generates more traffic and traffic is what he has admitted is his primary objective

 

[netty2424]

my understanding is that it isn't his job to check facts but to provoke, entice, and elicit click traffic

 

[frogs9497]

Pretty rich coming from someone whose university lost at life.

 

[kidkarr]

Pretty rich coming from someone whose university lost at life.

Past tense? Isn’t it ongoing life failure?