How to spin? Or typo?

Victor

http://www.independent.ie/national-news/oneinfive-girls-victim-of-internet-bullying-1379527.html

One-in-five girls victim of internet bullying
By Louise Hogan
Monday May 19 2008

ONE-in-five schoolgirls has fallen victim to cyber bullying, a nationwide survey has revealed.

http://www.examiner.ie/irishexaminer/pages/story.aspx-qqqg=ireland-qqqm=ireland-qqqa=ireland-qqqid=63189-qqqx=1.asp

Fears rise over extent of cyber-bulling
20 May 2008
By Conor Kane

INTERNET service providers are virtually powerless to prevent cyber-bullying, with social networking sites fast becoming a popular vehicle for targeting vulnerable young people.

As a survey published yesterday suggested that one in five girls and one in five boys have been the victims of cyber-bullying, calls have been made for restrictions on internet usage for young people.

gogglebok

It looks like a simple typing mistake in the Examiner. The Independent goes on to say, still with that weird hyphen thing, that "One-in-eight boys admitted to being 'cyber bullied' in recent months."

flogen

I'd guess typo too - if it's the case that both boys and girls had the same likelihood of being bullied then the Examiner would have just said 'one-in-five children' or 'one-in-five boys and girls'; it wouldn't really have made much sense to repeat the same number for both boys and girls in the same sentence.

gaf1983

Another paper I read, or it could have been a radio news bulletin actually, gave the figure as one in seven teenagers, which means they just got the average of 5 and 8, leading me to think it was a typo. I wonder does Conor Kane, author of the Examiner article, know his work is being dissected here, and more to the point, would he care?