pdf page 15 (document internal page 8): "Based on testimony to the Select Task Force and various academic articles, we learned that
anywhere from 25% to 85% of women report having experienced sexual harassment in the
workplace.
...
We found that when employees were asked, in surveys using a randomly representative sample
(called a “probability sample”), if they had experienced “sexual harassment,” without that term
being defined in the survey, approximately one in four women (25%) reported experiencing
“sexual harassment” in the workplace. This percentage was remarkably consistent across
probability surveys. When employees were asked the same question in surveys using
convenience samples (in lay terms, a convenience sample is not randomly representative because
it uses respondents that are convenient to the researcher (e.g., student volunteers or respondents
from one organization)), with sexual harassment not being defined, the rate rose to 50% of
women reporting they had been sexually harassed."
The cited EEOC report has fairly extensive citations backing up its claims.
As I said - I have no specific numbers I believe are The One True Answer, but it's fairly clear from a variety of sources that the decimal points are in approximately the right place. For the purpose of what I was discussing, 25% and 85% are approximately the same ("Very much higher than one might guess if we use our own behavior as a model").
