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In a bureaucratic nonresponse, a political appointee replied by enclosing a defense of the study prepared by Sedlak and stating, "I believe that the enclosed memo concerning the study adequately addresses your concerns."
In fact, as director of the National Center on Child Abuse and Neglect in the mid-1970s, I helped design the study in the first place--long before either Sedlak or Broadhurst were involved.
I mention this history, rather than dueling with Sedlak and Broadhurst's statistics, because I think that it exemplifies their selective presentation of information.
In their letter, Sedlak and Broadhurst correctly point out that I participated in a 1991 Conference of Experts that discussed the study's methodology.
First, at that meeting, I pointed out that the methodological changes that were planned for the study all would have the effect of raising the count of abused and neglected children . In fact, Sedlak and her colleagues described (in a report to HHS) how they planned to "fine-tune" the study to "ensure that categories of key participants who were most likely to encounter suspected maltreatment cases in the [1986 incidence study] are given higher probability of being included in the [new study]."