Message from @Undead Mockingbird
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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
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.
In cases of unproven guilt, many do the complete opposite of what our legal system is supposed to do and simply classifies those men as "those who got away".
There are few evils greater than this being committed in society right now, how we treat our boys and men, how carelessly we destroy their lives, and how spineless we and prior generations are in standing up to this disgusting pattern.
It is absolutely reprehensible how we are smearing and dragging men through the legal system. The process is bad enough that it might be punishment.
Treating men like a disposable commodity is the status quo for basically all of human history. Sure there might be a few percent of men who live like kings, but the vast majority have always been cannon fodder or slaves.
Absolutely no justice is being served by dragging the names of men through the mud while their accusers can either cower behind anonymity or a huddle of masses that are so lobotomized as to believe every allegation uttered from a person who happens to have a vagina.
This is the new standard for rape investigations:
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/law-and-order/12146351/No-one-is-safe-from-prosecutors-terrifying-incompetence-on-sex-crimes.html
If this does not terrify and anger you, you are not paying attention.
What was the last major rape case that was hyped by the media that did not collapse?
UVA, Duke Lacrosse, Brian Banks, Jian Ghomeshi, Roy Moore, Brett Kavanaugh, Jay Cheshire, Jemma Beale, Mattress Girl, Mustafa Uruay, Kahn Strauss, ...
how many more until these idiots are going to pull their heads out of their asses?
is that in the UK?
Some times, I wish there was a truth serum