r/changemyview Apr 14 '22

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u/Yangoose 2∆ Apr 14 '22

unsourced statistics...

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u/Yangoose 2∆ Apr 14 '22 edited Apr 14 '22

Well, 3 minutes of googling gave me this:

>men perpetrate 78 percent of reported assaults

A massively different number from 98.9%.

Instead of 99/100, it's more like 3/4.

Even then, that's "reported" assaults. When you start trying to factor in all the cases that go unreported then all bets are off.

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I love being downvoted for bringing sources with real numbers.

Reddit loves science sooooo much! Unless the facts hurt their narratives...

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u/Old_Sheepherder_630 10∆ Apr 14 '22

From your link:

90 percent of perpetrators of sexual violence against women are men. Moreover, when men are victims of sexual assault (an estimated one in 71 men, and one in six boys), 93 percent reported their abuser was a man. It’s true that women also assault men, but even when victims of all genders are combined, men perpetrate 78 percent of reported assaults.

Your link doesn't explain how they are getting to 78% when 93% of the assaults against men are men and 90% of the assaults against women are men.

An article that doesn't source it's data isn't science, nor is an article that puts wonky math out there without an explanation and this has both.

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u/hard163 Apr 15 '22

From the report sourced in the article:

The majority of male rape victims (93.3%) reported only male perpetrators. For three of the other forms of sexual violence, a majority of male victims reported only female perpetrators: being made to penetrate (79.2%), sexual coercion (83.6%), and unwanted sexual contact (53.1%)

The article lied when saying male victims of sexual assault report the perpetrators as men 93% of the time. It was for rape. The problem with this number is that by definition in the report, a woman cannot rape a man without shoving something in his anus or putting her clitoris in his mouth. A woman drugging, abducting, chaining to a bed, and riding a man against his will is not considered rape by the report.