Forsdike et al. (2022): Systematic Review on Sports and DV
Timon et al. (2022) Child SA of Elite Athletes:
Cheever & Eisenberg (2022) Minnesota Survey
Methods matter!
Real finding or noise?
100

This many articles were included in the final sample.

What are 12?

100

Percentage of elite athletes who reported being SA'd as a minor in sport.

What is 3.8%?

100

The state survey, and its year, that this study analyzed.

What is the 2016 Minnesota Student Survey

100

The reporting guidelines the systematic review followed.


What is PRISMA?

100

This p-value cutoff is the most common threshold for statistical significance.

What is .05?

200

11 used this data source to measure domestic violence.

What are police records?

200

Members of this U.S. team were not invited to the survey because of the Larry Nassar case.

What is gymnastics?

200

Name the three sports involvement groups and how many days per week each one plays.

What are uninvolved (0), moderately involved (1–4), highly involved (5+)

200

This survey design captures one point in time, so it cannot show that sports cause victimization.

What is cross-sectional?

200

Ten of the 12 DV studies found an effect, including all five strong ones. Seeing the same pattern across different studies is called this.

What is replication (or consistency)?

300

This many databases were searched.

What are five?

300

About 90% of athletes believed a report of abuse would lead to this.

What is retaliation by the offender.

300

In the full model, highly involved male athletes had 31% higher odds of perpetrating this.

what is sexual coercion?

300

Only about half of DV reaches police. Explain how game days could show an 'increase' even if violence stayed the same.

Game days could change reporting, not violence.

300

If a confidence interval for an odds ratio includes 1.0, the result is considered this.

What is not statistically significant?

400

UK studies linked this non-contact sport to increased DV, while a strong study found no link for rugby.

What is soccer?

400

Of the 89 athletes who witnessed or suspected abuse, about half responded this way.

What is... they did nothing.

400

For female athletes, every significant association appeared at this level of athletic involvement.

What is moderate?

400

The Minnesota survey didn’t collect names, so students couldn’t be identified. This is the term for that kind of survey.

What is anonymous?

400

With 122,501 students, even very small effects are likely to be this.

What is statistically significant?

500

3 Types of games were associated with increased DV.

What are rival, high-stakes, and weekend?

500

Name one recommendation the authors made to protect young athletes.

What is confidential third-party reporting OR an international offender registry.

500

Victimization only counted sexual harassment at this place in the past # days.

What are school and 30

500

The systematic review only included studies that had gone through this process before publication.

What is peer-review?

500

A wide confidence interval tells you the estimate is this.

What is imprecise (uncertain)?