Thank you for the clarification as my own research and reading indicated a
much higher rate.
Nancy Lane+
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From: Tanis M. Doe <[log in to unmask]>
To: Dr. Nancy Lane <[log in to unmask]>
Cc: [log in to unmask] <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Friday, July 16, 1999 1:43 PM
Subject: Re: Abuse & People with Disabilities
>I want to caution people reading Margaret Nosek's articles ( alldue
>respect) because she found equal rates of abuse between her two sample.
>That is the same level between no disabled and disabled women but her
>sample ONLY included physically disabled women and ONLY included self
>selected women. No women with developmental visual, hearing or learning
>disabilities were included and of the women who did not have disabilities
>they self selected too so it is possible the samples are not
>representative. I only offer this because Dick SObsey (and I ,, and DAWN
>Canada and others) have foud much higher rates of abuse between 2 to 4
>times the average among disabled people (and children) and this one
>project Margaret Nosek did- did not confirm this rate and people are using
>the data or the findings to say nothing needs to be done about the issue
>so please read the sampling methods carefully. Margaret knows the
>limitations of the research its people reading it who misconstrue it.
>Thanks
>
>pls send attachments to [log in to unmask] not to this email thanks.
>
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