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Re:My experience with sexual harassment in the Scala community by lukasb on Tuesday April 27, 2021 @09:58PM (#26964530)
"only 4% of cases are provable one way or the other, and that those which are have a 50/50 chance of being true or false complaints."

Not prosecuted != not provable. Not provable != false.

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Re:My experience with sexual harassment in the Scala community by Grieving on Wednesday April 28, 2021 @12:17AM (#26965536)
>Not prosecuted != not provable

Fair enough. Only 4% are known to be provable.

>Not provable != false

I neither claimed nor implied this. My point could be summed up as not provable != true.

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