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2. Up to one-third of all sex crimes against children are committed against boys (as opposed to girls).
It's actually around a fifth. 1 in 5 girls are the victim of abuse, compared to 1 in 20 boys. But that's irrelevant. What's the assumption/error that you're making here? Anyone spot it?
You're assuming that you are homosexual if you commit a sex crime against a boy. That is simply not the case. But you wouldn't know that because you are cherry picking statistics you like from a homophobic hate site. The simple fact is that most adult men who molest boys do
not show any sexual interest in adult men.
I'm not even touching on how you have fallen into the sampling bias heffalump trap.
Thanks, I was just gonna question the statistical errors, especially the point in bold, but you explained it better than I ever could.
There's a great book -
Bad Science by Ben Goldacre - which talks about the problems with health/science reporting in the media, and how statistics are misrepresented by people wanting to push a certain story/agenda. Highly recommended.
The author did a TED talk as well -
http://www.ted.com/talks/ben_goldacre_battling_bad_scienceIt's slightly off topic, but I think it's important that people see through these misleading statistics.