Bruce Rind
From William A. Percy
Biography
Bruce became a chess master in his teens and went on to become a masterful statistician. Until 2007, he taught the most advanced courses in statistics to grad students in psychology at Temple where he had earned his AB, MA and PhD.
Rind et al. (1998): "A meta-analytic examination of assumed properties of child sexual abuse (CSA) using college samples,"[2] was written by psychologists Bruce Rind, Philip Tromovitch and Robert Bauserman. He was unanimously condemned by both houses of congress and so was the APA for publishing it.
It's not to be confused with an earlier study by Rind and Tromovitch, "A meta-analytic review of findings from national samples on psychological correlates of child sexual abuse",[3] had appeared in 1997 in the Journal of Sex Research,[4] published by the Society for the Scientific Study of Sexuality.
The authors' stated goal was "...to address the question: In the population of persons with a history of CSA [child sexual abuse], does this experience cause intense psychological harm on a widespread basis for both genders?" Some of the authors' more controversial conclusions were:
"CSA does not cause intense harm on a pervasive basis regardless of gender."
"An important reason why the assumed properties of CSA failed to withstand empirical scrutiny in the current review is that the construct of CSA, as commonly conceptualized by researchers, is of questionable scientific validity."
They also claim that the "consensual" versus "non-consensual" variable is predictively valid because it can be used empirically to predict the degree of psychological damage based on whether the child describes the encounter as consensual or not.
Please refer to this link for more detailed information about Bruce Rind.[1]
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