[lbo-talk] Child Sexual Abuse Statistics and Trends (was Apthekerallegations)

[Michael Pugliese]

On 10/21/06, Jesse Lemisch <utopia1 at attglobal.net> wrote:It is bizarre
beyond belief that a person of any sophistication would pass on to us
figures purporting to show a decline in child sexual abuse without a
whit of concern as to how these figures were arrived at. Merely to
read these figures, with their false precision (787,071 victims) is to
laugh through tears.

   See, these excerpts of
Best, J. (2001).  Damned Lies and Statistics: Untangling  Numbers from
the Media, Politicians, and Activists and Murray, D., Schwartz, J., &
Lichter, S. R. (2001).  It Ain't Necessarily So: How Media Make and
Unmake the Scientific Picture of Reality @
http://www.jimhopper.com/abstats/#s-statistics
-- 
Michael Pugliese