Re:One Bad Apple
by edmundsauto on Monday August 09, 2021 @12:48AM
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What makes you quite certain about your 1-1000 number? It’s really easy to mistake our experience for something generalizable.
Re:One Bad Apple
by RealityVoid on Monday August 09, 2021 @01:42AM
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It's hard to say without data, but the number is so astonishingly high that, really, the first reaction is to call it into question.
It also seems to be the kind of thing that is hard to measure.
Re:One Bad Apple
by edmundsauto on Monday August 09, 2021 @02:05AM
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I dunno, seems reasonable to me. Crimes of this nature are underreported, so I tend to assume I’m only aware of a very small percentage of these situations. I’m not saying you’re wrong - just that I had the reaction that it seemed within the general ballpark. For example, most of the apparently normal women I have known well have shared stories of abuse and trauma.
What makes you say it’s hard to measure? The definitions are pretty clear cut.
I have no doubt that some cases of sexually abused children must have also existed in the environment where I have grown up as a child, in Europe, but I am quite certain that such cases could not have been significantly more than 1 per thousand children.
If the numbers would be really so high in USA, then something should definitely be done to change this, but spying on all people is certainly not the right solution.