I also found this stat frustrating. The “A 1:6 ratio means 7 rapes per 6 women on average” stat frustrated me even more—it assumes that EA men are rapists at the base rate of the population at large (probably false), and that every time a rapist rapes someone, if the rapist is an EA, their victim must be an EA too.
I worry that hearing stats like this will cause women to avoid EA, which will then contribute to the imbalanced gender ratio that Kathy has identified as being part of the problem.
What is true is already so.
Owning up to it doesn't make it worse.
Not being open about it doesn't make it go away.
And because it's true, it is what is there to be interacted with.
Anything untrue isn't there to be lived.
People can stand what is true,
for they are already enduring it.
—Eugene Gendlin
Framing effects matter. “There are 100-600 male rapists in EA” comes across much differently than “men in EA may be rapists at the same rate as men in the population at large”.
I also found this stat frustrating. The “A 1:6 ratio means 7 rapes per 6 women on average” stat frustrated me even more—it assumes that EA men are rapists at the base rate of the population at large (probably false), and that every time a rapist rapes someone, if the rapist is an EA, their victim must be an EA too.
I worry that hearing stats like this will cause women to avoid EA, which will then contribute to the imbalanced gender ratio that Kathy has identified as being part of the problem.
Framing effects matter. “There are 100-600 male rapists in EA” comes across much differently than “men in EA may be rapists at the same rate as men in the population at large”.