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0	False rape accusations are incredibly common, virtually routine even. Bertsch & Matthews (2021): Of 255 participants, 18 admitted to a fictitious claim. The authors themselves note that this subgroup is too small to generalize, and that extrapolation to any other women is "inadvisable" and that they "cast a wide net" by never defining the type of assault claimed. 4 of those 18 reported to an authority figure. That's 1.6% of the sample. The remaining 14 told friends and family, which is definitionally different from a formal false report. The authors cite existing …	/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates	20/06/26 09:56 PM
0	False rape accusations are incredibly common, virtually routine even. Just to get this part out of the way, the Kanin study is the most thoroughly discredited source for this. It was omitted from Ferguson & Malouff (2016) (a valid meta-analysis) due to methodological flaws. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/26679304/ Here’s additional sources, trying to avoid paywalls: https://www.nsvrc.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/Lisak-False-Reports-Moving-beyond.pdf https://xyonline.net/sites/xyonline.net/files/2021-10/Lisak,%20False%20Allegations%20of%20Sexual%20Assault%202010…	/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates	20/06/26 07:32 PM
0	False rape accusations are incredibly common, virtually routine even. Feel free to name the fallacy. And cite that meta-analysis.	/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates	19/06/26 03:35 AM
0	False rape accusations are incredibly common, virtually routine even. It's clear you don't have a meta-analysis. I actually do have one. Ferguson & Malouff (2016), Archives of Sexual Behavior. It doesn't cite 8%. It finds 5.2% of reported cases. And even that doesn’t really matter, because data on reported cases will always be considerably inaccurate, given the substantial number of unreported cases. Not just because of the usual reasons for non-reporting, but because both men and women don't know what counts as sexual assault. The sources I provided directly cont…	/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates	19/06/26 03:22 AM
1	False rape accusations are incredibly common, virtually routine even. The UCR guidelines actually define unfounded as "false” or “baseless,” while defining neither with clear criteria. That's documented in the research literature on UCR methodology, including peer-reviewed work on how rape myth acceptance among officers influences unfounded classifications. The lack of operational clarity is the problem. “The FBI's Uniform Crime Report (UCR) Handbook guides crime classification and reporting for law enforcement, stating that a crime is to be classified as unfounde…	/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates	19/06/26 02:41 AM
1	False rape accusations are incredibly common, virtually routine even. The UCR document defines “unfounded” as complaints “determined through investigation to be false.” What it does not define is what “false” means operationally. Proven fabrication, insufficient evidence, uncooperative victim, and cases law enforcement declined to pursue have all been categorized as “unfounded” under UCR reporting. That’s not disputed in the research literature on this. The document itself provides no methodology for distinguishing between those. So the 8% figure tells you how man…	/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates	19/06/26 02:10 AM
1	False rape accusations are incredibly common, virtually routine even. The problem is you’ve clearly never taken a course on research methodology (or if you did, you weren’t paying attention) because the 8% claim you are making isn’t actually represented as “false” in the source you provided. “Unfounded” in UCR reporting includes cases that were poorly investigated, victims deemed uncooperative, and cases law enforcement declined to pursue. That is not the same as proven fabrication. Now you said you have a meta analysis. The 1995 FBI UCR aggregation isn’t one, but…	/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates	19/06/26 01:44 AM
0	False rape accusations are incredibly common, virtually routine even. Credibility assessments cut both ways. Rape myth acceptance typically only goes one way. Literature on confirmed false reports puts the rate between 2-10%. The high end of that range comes from studies using the loosest definitions (that still include uninvestigated cases, recantations made under pressure, and the same flawed “unfounded” categorization). The more rigorous the methodology and the narrower the definition of confirmed fabrication, the lower the number gets. Consistently toward 2-3%…	/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates	19/06/26 01:29 AM