Originally Posted by
"XyOh"
You bring up some interesting aspects, dickriculous, but you should note that your highest percentage came from a demographic pool of 18 people. The higher the demographic the lower the percentage rate becomes in most studies. Some of these studies would be difficult to consider without me reading all of them since they were published more than twenty or thirty years ago. Also, for most of these reports (unless you expect me to read them all) could vary the percentage greatly based off of population density. I chose the UK study because it picks from a moderately large pool in a large population. There are certainly a lot of variables consider, but my position still stands. Thank you however for having a well thought out and well argued opinion on the matter.
I know that the studies I posted are flawed and most likely none of them reflect an accurate portrayal of reality. And I absolutely don't expect you to waste your time researching all of them lol, I'm just trying to make a point here - that the level of variance among studies - most of which are withheld from the public - is MASSIVE. And this isn't even taking into account the number of rape accusations that go uninvestigated, or that couldn't be proven one way or the other, or that the jury/judge may have gotten wrong one way or the other and nobody ever found out about it...all of these things have the potential to turn the numbers inside out and considering all of these things it makes perfect sense that the numbers from study to study are going to be skewed. That's why I don't rely on them to form an opinion on the frequency of false accusations.
Edit: And btw thank you for doing the same, you're a good poster even if I don't entirely agree with you.
Last edited by dickriculous; 02-06-14 at 07:02 AM.
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