Let's take a look a few posts from our local neighborhood misogynist, 'Rokcet Scientist' from a different thread about a Disturbed Theist Calling into the Atheist Experience claiming 99% of rapes were false. And if you gave this guy his lonely 6 reputations from 2 years of posting here...you might wanna take them back after reading these.

(February 10, 2012 at 5:40 am)Rokcet Scientist Wrote: Unture
'Only' about 66% of claimed rapes are false, as statistical analyses show. Two-thirds! I.o.w.: a comfortable majority of claimed rapes is complete bullshit IRL.

He then circled around it, calling a woman in the thread "biased" offering no evidence. Not even a Catholic-poll on a different site...

(February 10, 2012 at 5:40 am)Rokcet Scientist Wrote: "He raped me" is – and has been through the ages – a favorite left hook of women who want to lash out at, and knock out one particular guy, or blackmail him. Or of women who use it to convince their partner they were not unfaithful to him but 'forced' to screw this other guy while, in reality, these women were simply playing the field.

What do you even say to a 'man' who advocates such nonsense. I guess the choice not to do something is open to interpretation now. He clearly has some deep issues writing something like this.

(February 10, 2012 at 5:40 am)Rokcet Scientist Wrote: Fortunately we now have DNA, which can prove what really happened in most cases

Of course I tried to explain that not every rapist leaves evidence at the crime scene, like a used condom or even his semen. And I guess it's not rape if the rapist uses a condom...This is really getting sickening at this point.

(February 10, 2012 at 5:40 am)Rokcet Scientist Wrote: I'm bloody serious: rapees lie in 2 out of 3 cases. Rape is bad, but falsely accusing one of rape is at least as bad, a perversion of justice and social mores, and happens twice as often IRL

Another assertion made with nothing to back it up. Personal Conjectures at best. Even Projecting...I mean I have to wonder at this point not IF he has raped someone but how many, because with this logic he could rape someone for the first time tomorrow and never feel sorry about it because the girl is "blackmailing" him.

(February 10, 2012 at 5:40 am)Rokcet Scientist Wrote: He does in 98% of reported rape cases. Statistically that is a near perfect sample data set. Over 20 times as much as is commonly used for trend analyses applied in marketing and political decision making.

Again he asserts very hard that he is right and raped people are wrong cuz their just not getting with the picture..and again, no evidence to back anything up, misses how rapists can wear condoms and dont leaven semen at the crime among a lot of other things he forgot... They must have an agenda if they go to the police?... of course the rapist has everything to lose, he raped someone, he should lose everything, haha blackmail...

(February 10, 2012 at 5:40 am)Rokcet Scientist Wrote: I see you like socially correct fairy tales. Dude.
I see you don't care about the irreparable damage and lifelong trauma these nasty bitches cause their innocent victims.
I see you don't care about false accusations and miscarriages of justice (as long as they are of women against men).

I see BIAS gushing.

He even tries to be poetic and fails miserably, even trying to repeat it, as if he has a gem here.


You better hope he doesnt move in next to you.

Looks like he fell prey to sampling bias. It happens.

(February 10, 2012 at 11:21 am)Rhythm Wrote: Looks like he fell prey to sampling bias. It happens.

He didn't even dare give any b/s link. At least he knew better there.

I too would like to see links to specific studies.

False allegations DO happen, but I'd rather see where his numbers are being pulled from.

This thread is going to become entertaining shortly.

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(February 10, 2012 at 11:44 am)thesummerqueen Wrote: I'd rather see where his numbers are being pulled from.

I didn't know you were into fetish porn.

Are we really going to fling the word "misogynist" around?

*sigh*

"BJS report NCJ-151658 notes that there are 2 rapes or attempted rapes reported per 1,000 US citizens, which is 530,000 reports of rape per year. There are 15,000 rape convictions annually. Based on new DNA tests, a third of those convictions are now found to be false. Therefore, there are potentially 520,000 false rape allegations a year."

BJS is the Bureau of Justice Statistics, that is their report (from 1993 I believe) and the subsequent conclusions drawn by an armchair analyst. That's 98% right there. Do I buy it? No, because the numbers have been jacked with by failing to account for some pretty important variables. Nevertheless, the claim exists and is based on verifiable data. Errors in statistical analysis are many, most often the problem is not with the numbers but what the analyst decides to do with those numbers, how they decide to interpret them.

One might decide to interpret those same numbers in a much different way. Stating that based on this data, 98% of rape allegations could potentially end in wrongful convictions or no conviction. This puts two groups of people on the shitty end of the stick. Those who are wrongly convicted, and those who (for whatever reason) could not secure a conviction in their case (speaking specifically about legitimate cases). 5,000 of those cases ending in conviction are overturned (so sayeth this analyst) That leaves 515,00 cases that did not end in conviction, of which some would be false allegations and some would be for an assortment of other reasons. Not a pretty picture, a measly 2% of people associated with these cases being the only group we could definitely say had secured justice..

Lets go with someone more reliable shall we (The BJS is reliable, the "analyst" above was not..lol)? 8% is the rate of "unfounded allegations" according to the FBI, but they put alot of qualifiers on that number (and it's from a different year) Still not fantastic, considering that they report the average rate of false accusations for other crimes at 2%. Still shitty, considering the effects of a rape allegation even after it is shown to be false, which is probably what gets men up in arms about this. These are the numbers, and they are covered in caveats, nonetheless, it appears that it's possible that 8 of every 100 rape allegations are cases of false reporting. An advocate might point out that just because a person is not convicted does not mean that they are not guilty, but I'm afraid that this is exactly what it means, unless we're willing to say something along the lines of "I don't care if he wasn't convicted...I know he's guilty". It might be true, but that's not how our justice system works and I doubt that anyone would want our justice system to work that way, including any person who might make such a statement. As you can probably tell, I don't agree with advocates on either side of this issue, as the numbers we have available show that great many people are raped every year, and that a great many people are falsely accused of rape every year.

(February 10, 2012 at 11:44 am)thesummerqueen Wrote: I too would like to see links to specific studies.

False allegations DO happen, but I'd rather see where his numbers are being pulled from.

I've found one from Britain which concludes that 8% of rape reports are considered false; taking away the ones where there was still some probability of assault, it was more like 3%.

http://webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.u...ors293.pdf

There's a couple other studies, and they all have a general range of 2-8% of accusations being false.

Agreed; one cannot show from the data that anyone was lying.

We also need to take into account that just because someone isn't convicted of a rape doesn't mean someone else didn't do it (i.e mistaken identity).

(February 10, 2012 at 12:13 pm)Tiberius Wrote: Are we really going to fling the word "misogynist" around?

*sigh*

Quote:Misogynist: A man who hates women as much as women hate one another.

-- H. L. Mencken