[lbo-talk] Sexual abuse statistics

Joanna 123hop at comcast.net
Fri Oct 2 23:47:42 PDT 2009


Miles writes in response to John Thorton's email

"The plural of anecdote is not data." --Frank Kotsonis

I'm surprised by this Miles. In fact, I'm disappointed.

Do you disagree that the production of this "data" is extremely problematic? Did you see my email as to why most of the time this kind of stuff never gets reported?

Here are my personal stats:

Molestation by friends of family at 7, 11.

By complete stranger 13.

Rape by father's friend at 17; he was in his late fifties.

Number of charges made 0.

The fact that anecdote do not and cannot become data is also data.

Joanna



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