Hi Tobias,
In addition to Maggie's attempt to explain why the numbers might seem high, the reported percentages on slide #17 are not out of the total pool of respondents (~3800) but out of those who reported experiencing harassment (~1200).
e.g. as there were 740 respondents reported "revenge porn", this brings the percentage down to 19% out of the general pool of respondents, and in the range of up to 25% in regard to other categories of harassment.
That said, even with 18-25%, I think this is still rather on the high end of the spectrum. My alternative theory to explain this is around the used terminology in the survey. Terms like "revenge porn" or "doxing" are still comparatively new [1] [2] to casual internet users, not to mention to good faith Wikipedia contributors, and chances that some of the respondents confused them for something else (porn, or revenge .. etc) is not an unlikely scenario.
[1] https://www.google.com/trends/explore#q=revenge%20porn [2] https://www.google.com/trends/explore#q=doxxing
Hope this helps.
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On Sat, Jan 30, 2016 at 5:14 AM, Tobias church.of.emacs.ml@googlemail.com wrote:
Thank you Patrick.
The (preliminary) report is in my mind deeply disturbing, not merely by how widespread harassment is, but also by what types of harassment respondents cite.
User page vandalism and flaming I would have expected, but around 35% of respondents in our community* apparently were subject to Outing, Threats of Violence, Impersonation and Hacking.
Almost one third (!) of the respondents were themselves the subject of revenge porn, defined by the survey as: "publishing of sexually explicit or sexualised photos of without one's consent".
Wait, what? How could that possibly be...?
Either a substantial number of respondents did not answer truthfully, or they didn't understand the question, or I really have no clue what's going on in this community.
Tobias
- I multiplied the percentage of responses (~65%) with the number of
users who were asked this question because they reported they'd been harassed or maybe harassed (54%).
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