And even when rape accusations are false, they're primarily not what the fertile imaginations of HN imagine, which seems to be women who've taken a dislike to some nerdy colleague for no reason, or the willing partner who decides later that it was actually rape.
In reality, the majority of them are very young girls, or cheating wives, who need to come up with some alibi for their parents or husband and so invent a classic stranger with a knife rape scenario rather than point the finger at some innocent person. Often they don't even intend to go to the police but the parent who they lied to files on their behalf.
https://qz.com/980766/the-truth-about-false-rape-accusations...
10% of false rape reports may be made by people in the hope of recieving medical care they need for other reasons, which is a tragic statistic in itself.
"To classify a case as a false allegation, a thorough investigation must yield evidence that a crime did not occur."
2-10% provably false allegations does not mean 90-98% are true.
i have little doubt that most allegations speak to truth, but it also seems to me that trying to manipulate numbers in this way isn't beneficial.
But you're missing my main point, if, as one study found, 78% of false rape claims involve claims of weapons, gang rape or physical injury then it's not going to happen during a Silicon Valley office Christmas party.
The raw numbers are paired with a narrative, when really the real data blows the narrative apart.
i'd wager that's true of every crime, from thievery to murder.
what you're suggesting is to treat every accusation as true.