Makes you wonder where the good guys with guns are.

the device looked like a bomb

Ok, I guess I can forgive, but still. Reporting on scientific papers is so shitty and unreliable it makes me spit. There needs to be more cross pollination between journos and scientists/statisticians.

I’m looking at the study right now, and am a little lost as to how they come to that 50% number. Not because I just don’t understand - I’m pretty well trained in this sort of econometric analysis - but because I think they’re making an (almost certainly innocent) mistake.

So your experience is every experience. Got it.

I’m not denying that this is true as a general proposition (mostly because I’m not an asshole who believes that women cavalierly “cry rape” at every opportunity), but I see the “statistic” of false rape allegations thrown around a lot on this blog, and no one ever explains where the number (usually less than 5%) comes…