Message from @pratel
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its on the bottom of the graphic
That's really deceptive.
yuuuup
and when called out
she went
"its a conversation starter"
even the link on the graph disproves her claims
it was meant to look official
The usual excuse.
but no one will type out that url from the graphic
Went looking. Here's the first hit I found on Bing.
http://www.slate.com/blogs/xx_factor/2013/01/08/the_enliven_project_s_false_rape_accusations_infographic_great_intentions.html
Note the date. This apparently got debunked in 2013.
The Enliven project looks to me like an activists' blog.
Tim, I found this piece about the 2%-8% stat https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/how-common-are-false-rape-charges-really-jason-richwine/
he warned us
and its only getting worse
and will only get worse
I think confirmation bias and the like has been known forever though.
And it's just as bad--if not worse--in places like Academia.
In the case of theenlivenproject, it appears to have changed to a YouTube channel and a new blog.
It looks much more professional, but appears to be the same person spearheading it all.
https://theuncomfortableconversation.org/
That's an interesting National Review article. Should be relatively straightforward to confirm if one has the data. And far more relevant to the Ford-Kavanaugh case than it may initially look given that the prosecutor the Republicans hired didn't think she could even get a search warrant.
It actually could be spun both ways by both parties too.
I don't get the obsession about the rate of false accusations anyway
It should always be a case to case basis, with the bases that the accused in innocent until proven guilty
The rate at which something happens should be entirely irrelevant
In terms of resource allocation or deciding what's a "worthwhile problem" good stats on the occurrence of these things do matter.
In principle you're correct, but in practice you often have to weigh resources and things.
In terms of #MeToo, if you can show that false accusations don't really happen, it makes for an easier argument that you don't need to actually go through the effort of proving the allegations carefully.
Which is what the "sexual assault" groups want
This led to the Title IX courts, which reached a level of ridiculous as to be their own satire.
Look up University of South California football Title IX for the peak in silly--the girlfriend who was "raped" insisted that not only was there no intercourse but it was all consentual. The Title IX administrators lectured her that she didn't understand her own rape.
Susan Collins is a good man
Half of all exonerees of the Innocence Project are now men have been falsely convicted of rape.
The average falsely accused man spends 11 years in prison.
Rapes are 1/20th of all violent crimes.
False conviction rates are about 4 times as high for rape as for other violent crimes.
This is an aptly named blog, because how we deal with rape allegations is one of the biggest human stupidities.
@Timcast you might want to consider using a different color palette for that chart
It is also ironic that they assume many of the unproven allegations to be true when they will not do the reverse and consider all women whose allegations have not resulted in a conviction liars.