tazzygirl
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ORIGINAL: samboct "And yet you give one woman's opinion in the face of all these women who have personal knowledge of the feelings and the attitudes resulting from rape. Are you really that narrow minded on this issue? " Yup- the same way that I'd give Newton's opinion credence over people that thought that heavier objects fall faster, the same way I'd give Galileo the nod when it came to the position of the Earth in the universe, and the same way that I'd believe Einstein's description of space/time, or Darwin when it comes to evolution versus creationism. So yeah-I'll take someone whose opinion is based on looking at a lot of data, versus people who are going on anecdotal evidence. In science, we don't decide someone is right based on a collection of opinions- we look at data. Sam Science is flawed when all the pertinent information is not available. Since many people, women and men, do not report, and a huge majority of incest victims never report, your "data" isnt complete, therefore your analysis is flawed. Missing data reduce the representativeness of the sample and can therefore distort inferences about the population.
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Telling me to take Midol wont help your butthurt. RIP, my demon-child 5-16-11 Duchess of Dissent 1 Dont judge me because I sin differently than you. If you want it sugar coated, dont ask me what i think! It would violate TOS.
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