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From: hollombe@ttidcc.UUCP (The Polymath)
Newsgroups: net.women
Subject: Re: rape statistics
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Date: Tue, 5-Nov-85 13:09:17 EST
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Posted: Tue Nov  5 13:09:17 1985
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Reply-To: hollombe@ttidcc.UUCP (The Polymath)
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Summary: 

In article <1824@watdcsu.UUCP> dmcanzi@watdcsu.UUCP (David Canzi) writes:
>You are assuming that, while 9/10 of the women don't get raped, the
>1/10 that do are raped an average of 2.5 times each....
>
>For this to be true, victims of previous rapes would have to be 6 times
>likelier to be raped again than women who have never been raped.  This
>would seem to imply that the victims are "asking for it" to a degree
>that even lifelong, hardened MCPs would have difficulty accepting.

It doesn't imply anything of the kind.  A woman who lives and/or works in a
high  crime  area  is much more likely to be raped than one who doesn't and
that's just one possible explanation.  By definition, no  one  asks  to  be
raped.

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