That viral Brazil rape poll was wrong, but still disturbing

Published April 5, 2014 4:00am ET



Last week’s poll that showed that Brazilians believe women wearing revealing clothes deserve to be raped was wrong, according to a statement released Friday by the government agency that conducted the survey.

The original results released by the Institute of Applied Economic Research noted that 65 percent of respondents agreed that if a woman wore clothes that “showed off her body” she deserved to be sexually assaulted. In fact, only 26 percent of respondents agreed.

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