Microsoft Intern’s Rape Claim Highlights Struggle to Combat Sex Discrimination

Re:Microsoft Intern’s Rape Claim Highlights Struggle to Comb... by abiox on Saturday December 16, 2017 @08:03PM (#15943283)

your link states:

"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.

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Re:Microsoft Intern’s Rape Claim Highlights Struggle to Comb... by tfha on Saturday December 16, 2017 @09:03PM (#15943537)

Also, if we construct our society such that making false accusations is a way to get what you want, certainly the number of false accusations will rise.

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Re:Microsoft Intern’s Rape Claim Highlights Struggle to Comb... by ZeroGravitas on Sunday December 17, 2017 @10:05AM (#15945990)

I can't find that text in my link, and it actually argues the opposite, that some of the cases ruled "false" by many studies are probably actually true.

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.

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Re:Microsoft Intern’s Rape Claim Highlights Struggle to Comb... by abiox on Sunday December 17, 2017 @05:30PM (#15948049)

> I can't find that text in my link

sorry, i was unclear. it's found in the link under "only between 2% and 10% of all reports are estimated to be false".

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