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[spooky3]

"A high % of rape allegations turn out to be false reports." Aside from not being able to cite definitive, peer reviewed sources to support this, they seem to overlook:

1) What's the definition of "false report"? If it's that the investigators didn't turn up enough evidence to charge someone with the crime, that does not mean the report was false.

2) The denominator of the % is suspect. Rape is one of the most underreported crimes. For every allegation made to the police, there are probably 5-10 events that are not reported. If we could somehow measure and count the non-reported actual rapes and add them to those that are reported, the % of "false reports" would likely be tiny.