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"A recent White House report found one in five female college students are sexually assaulted. Not exactly, says Wendy Kaminer. She takes issue with the language of the report, saying the Obama Administration is apparently, "oblivious to the difference between allegations, estimates and facts." (Elaine Thompson/AP) "Nearly one in five women have been raped in her lifetime," according to the White House Council on Women and Girls. Is that a fact? Or is it allegation or an estimate based on self-reporting surveys? Interestingly, the White House asserts that the same number of women, one in five, "has been sexually assaulted while in college." Is that a fact? Not exactly: It's a statistic derived from "a web-based survey of undergraduates," which means that one in five women has reported suffering a sexual assault. Maybe their reports are absolutely, unassailably accurate. Maybe not."