[sitetest]

Dear Mrs. Don-o,

Works for me.

On a per capita basis, the abuse cited here is probably two or three orders of magnitude greater than that which afflicted the Church.


sitetest

[Mrs. Don-o]

"On a per capita basis, the abuse cited here is probably two or three orders of magnitude greater than that which afflicted the Church."

Hmm. From what I remember from high school math, an order of magnitude in base ten usually means an exponential change in a power of ten. Like, "one order of magnitude" means 10 times as much; "two orders of mangitude" means 10 superscript 2, or 100 times as much.

Do you think the abuse in the public schools is 100 times as much as in Catholic institutions? Or more?

I think Shakeshaft's estimates are along those lines, but it's hard to grasp the magnitude.