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To: marktwain
Australian women are now raped over three times as often as American women

I read a statistic once, that one in three American women would be raped in their lifetime. If both these statistics are correct, it means 100% of Australian women will be raped in their lifetime. (Or maybe, that the number of rapes in an average lifetime will be the same as the number of women alive - some escaping that fate, but others being raped more than once.)

18 posted on 04/09/2009 7:03:44 AM PDT by coloradan (The US has become a banana republic, except without the bananas - or the republic.)
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To: coloradan

The American statistic is wrong. It’s based on rumors and phony statistics circulated by radical feminists to demonize men and make women feel vulnerable.

Reported rape peaked around 1990 at 40 per 100,000 people per year, or 80 per 100,000 females per year. It’s generally declined since.

Assuming an average age of 70, this means the average woman stands a 5600 per 100,000 chance, or about 5.6%, of being raped during her lifetime. BTW, this leaves out of the equation the obvious fact that many women living in dangerous areas or with dangerous occupations may be raped more than once. Equally obvious is that women not in these positions have a much lower risk.

The phony statistics are arrived at by unjustified assumptions about the number of unreported rapes and by playing games with the definition of rape.

I have no idea if the Australian stat is accurate.


20 posted on 04/09/2009 7:18:31 AM PDT by Sherman Logan (Everyone has a right to his own opinion, but not to his own facts.)
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