Yet another study has been released purporting to show that American colleges are just the worst for women. And as you can imagine, multiple media outlets unquestioningly parroted the report’s finding and quoted the author’s statements in articles that might as well have been reprinted press releases.

Alas, this study, like so, so many before it, suffers from the same flaws that have given most reasonable people pause when deciding whether to believe the claim that 1 in 5 American college women have been sexually assaulted.

First let me point out that when I emailed the study’s author, Kate Carey, a Ph.D. at Brown University’s department of behavioral and social sciences, about the study’s limitations she acknowledged that it is, “Not nationally representative. Our sampling strategy did not allow for that.”