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Re:The only way of being anonymous in Sweden is illegal by thrown_22 on Wednesday October 26, 2022 @10:22AM (#33344144)
Sweden is like the poster child of the soft men make hard times meme.

>No we like having the highest per capita rape of any European country.

Re:The only way of being anonymous in Sweden is illegal by Retric on Wednesday October 26, 2022 @10:27AM (#33344235)
Only if you compare wildly different statistics without context.

During the years 2013-2017, Sweden averaged 64 reported rapes per 100,000 inhabitants—a rate that tied for the highest in Europe. However, when the data was examined, it became clear that Sweden's high numbers were fueled in large part by Sweden's broader definition of rape and more inclusive reporting rules compared to other European countries. When the data was recalculated using Germany's narrower guidelines, for example, Sweden's average reported rapes per 100,000 people fell from 64 to 15, a decrease of 326.7%.

Re:The only way of being anonymous in Sweden is illegal by mminer237 on Wednesday October 26, 2022 @10:54AM (#33344619)
That still would make it the third-highest in Europe, only behind Belgium and Norway. It would still be 50% higher than Germany and over four times somewhere like Spain.
Re:The only way of being anonymous in Sweden is illegal by Retric on Wednesday October 26, 2022 @11:00AM (#33344743)
That was only correcting for the definition between those 2 countries. It says nothing about what percentage of rapes get reported in each country or how other European countries define things.

In the end it’s easy to compare numbers, it much harder to get at the underlying truth.

Re:The only way of being anonymous in Sweden is illegal by u10 on Wednesday October 26, 2022 @10:26AM (#33344216)
One, nobody thinks that, and two, a rather glib response to a rather complex satistical issue.