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From: warren@pluto.UUCP (Warren Burstein)
Newsgroups: net.women
Subject: Re: rape statistics
Message-ID: <169@pluto.UUCP>
Date: Sat, 2-Nov-85 23:16:02 EST
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Posted: Sat Nov  2 23:16:02 1985
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Summary: fudge!

In article <1181@decwrl.UUCP>, merrill@raja.DEC writes:
> 
> If you read the FBI Crime report for the year, multiply by 30 (years per
> generation) and divide by the number of women you should come close
> to 25%, BUT many women DO get raped multiple times but that data is
> not available generally.  Sooo I would credit the 1 in 10 number more
> than the 1 in 5 number.  
> 
> 	

I'm not convinced.  This sounds like what I used to do in physics lab
when I didn't have any real data.

There must be solid facts somewhere.