Marine Corps Officer Captain Lindsay Rodman is a lawyer for the Pentagon and questions their "2012 Annual Report on Sexual Assault in the Media" survey saying it is replete with "bad math," according to a Navy Times story. 

Capt. Rodman, a Harvard-educated lawyer, penned an op-ed for The Wall Street Journal in 2013 questioning the Pentagon's survey. In her piece, Capt. Rodman said she received an email request to take the online survey, as did most of the other females in her office, but curiously, none of the males did. She said the exact number of male and female respondents to the survey can't be known, but what is known is that only one out of five responded at all.

Even though the Pentagon's official report has the term "sexual assault" in its title, Capt. Rodman said the survey used the wording "unwanted sexual contact" -- which could include touching or attempted touching. She admits that either is wrong, but as a lawyer, she says those things would not fall under the Uniform Code of Military Justice's definition of sexual assault.

The "bad math" comes from how the survey "extrapolated" the findings to come up with its final totals. According to the Navy Times:

The conclusions were drawn from 24,000 responses after sending surveys to 108,000 active duty personnel. The survey determined that 6.1 percent of the female respondents experienced unwanted sexual contact in 2012 and 1.2 percent of men.

The survey then “extrapolated” based on the size of the armed forces to arrive at the 26,000 figure.

Capt. Rodman insists that "no conclusions can be drawn" from the survey and says for Capitol Hill to proclaim these findings as an "epidemic" is only making it worse:

If we are exaggerating what is going on rather than being precise about it then we are doing ourselves a disservice by helping perpetuate the problem.