[fintstone]

Originally Posted by notfarnow

I'm not following your logic. You're saying that you suspect organizations are making up stats on unreported rapes? for grant money or to "promote a cause"?

Did you read your own article? The folks doing the "reporting" are not necessarily the same folks coming up with the numbers. Yes. Most folks who do this type of work (coming up with data where none exists) do so on government grants or as a college thesis. Most organizations interested in this type work...or a particular question like this also usually have a particular position they are trying to support. Why else would anyone set out to create data instead of relying on actual reported data?

Why do you think they create this data? Do you not believed that they are paid to do so? There is a huge industry around this. I personally get trained on this several times a year...as do millions of others in the military or Federal government. It is a huge industry.

Back to the silly, made up statistics you are so adamant are accurate. I'm not following you logic. If we could count everyone who is raped and does not report it, why would anyone need to report it...as we would already know? Why have we not arrested all these rapists?

...and if we already knew how many rape cases were not false accusations...why would we ever have to have a trial? We could just sentence the guilty and free the innocent.