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Originally Posted by GioforPM
Actually, it's not unsupported. And, of the two percent of rape reports that turn out to be false accusations, most are against aquaintances and don't involve any sort of financial motivation. They are almost always relationship based.
Show me a false rape accusation against a celebrity and I'll show you a ton more against an ex-boyfriend, a teacher or something similar.
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Ok. Again. I have said multiple times that I am referring to the ratio and frequency, not the total amount. No where have I said that there are more total false accusations against celebs/wealthy than against regular people.
The general population is much larger than the celebrity population. There can be 1000's more rapes in the general population and still have the false accusation rate be higher for celebrities. Because there are millions more regular people than celebrities. Ratios!
Lets say (stats from my butt) there are 1,000,000 people in the US that are considered in the category of wealthy and well known enough that a rape accusation could be lucrative (that number is probably very high). If of those million, 500 are accused of rape and 5 of them are false, that is 1% of all rape accusations against the celebrity population being false.
300,000,000 people in the US. Wiki says 173,000 victims last year is 0.1% of the population over 12 years old. If 1% of those are fake as well, that's 1730 cases. If less than 1% are fake, let's say 0.5%, thats still 865 cases (173x as many) of false accusation, even though the rate is half.
That is what I've been trying to get across. The total amount of false accusations on the general population will be higher, no question. That does not mean the rate of false accusations is higher. They are not the same question.
Also, how is what you said NOT unsupported? You claimed the accusations that end in settlements are more likely to be true. Absolutely no one has data on this, because no one knows the truth in any cases settled out of court. That's why they settle out of court.