Citation needed...

MaKo1982 · 2019-12-15T06:34:20+00:00

It looks like they just took the official number of falsely accused people, which, I assume are only the cases where a woman went in front of a court and was proven wrong. (not even that the case was dropped)

I also wonder why they used percentages instead of absolute numbers. Hmm, maybe they are trying to make their facts sound more real?

Like just say "In 2019, x people died to lightning strokes and y people were falsely accused of rape and x>y"

Philletto · 2019-12-15T07:36:54+00:00

1 in 4 women "I didn't like the way he looked at me"

EasyCZ_1960 · 2019-12-15T05:29:33+00:00

*lightning

VestigialHead · 2019-12-15T06:48:49+00:00

Wow what absolute garbage.

Are they really claiming that 1 in 4 women get sexually assaulted?

Lets check. In 2015 in the US there were 431,840 reported rapes.

165,920,000 women.

So that is 0.260270%

Lets round up to 0.3% to be fair.

So 3 in every 1000 women get raped. Not even close to the 1 in 4.

Let alone the bullshit in the other percentages. False accusations have increased massively since the #MeToo movement. So that percentage in the post is way way off.

Gretshus · 2019-12-15T08:00:17+00:00

the biggest problem with this is that it doesn't take into account rape accusations that were unsubstantiated, that is to say a claim with no evidence and no conviction (with no charge of false report). The majority of rape cases are unproven, (around 70-80% iirc), which indicates more that 90% (assuming my 70-80% was accurate) of rape cases are false or could be false. Considering all it takes is an accusation for someone's reputation to be ruined, I will say that being scared of a false claim is rational.

Egalitarianwhistle · 2019-12-15T06:18:31+00:00

Lol, there is a magical formula I found on the r/menslib sidebar drawing from 6 different studies.

So 1/6 x 1/3 x 1/10 x 9/50 x 15/100 x 1/3 = 0.00005

Which mean out of all the women you meet you have a 0.005% chance of being falsely charged of Rape.

Although, shockingly, this formula didn't have a citation either.

Why do I feel a hesitation to call this "rigorous" science?

AnaBusadoDemi · 2019-12-15T05:55:47+00:00

Hmm and i thought they were really for minorities

username2136 · 2019-12-15T15:20:24+00:00

“when it happens to them” how do you know it will though tf? see they literally try/want it to happen for attention or something. they’re expecting it almost. girls are trippy i’m glad i’m gay lmaoooo.

baronmad · 2019-12-16T01:20:23+00:00

What about the sexual abuse number, 99.99% of the cases are dropped, its cases such as "a man opened a door for me", "he gave me roses", "He gave my chocolate", "he asked me out on a date", "he wanted to have sex and id didnt", "he bought me a drink", "he sat down at my table", "he helped me move and asked if he was welcome to the house warming party", "he asked if he could carry my luggage for me", "he looked at my in a funny way", "i was drunk, he was drunk and we have sex", "he catcalled me". "he fixed my fridge and stove", "he changed my windows", "he gave me postcard" and i thought he was creepy. etc etc etc etc etc etc.

Title	Citation needed...
Author	username2136
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Comments	22
Date	December 15, 2019 4:40 AM UTC (6 years ago)
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