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From: bill@apl-uw.UUCP (Bill Hanot)
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Subject: Re: Will 15% of all women really be assa - (nf)
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Date: Thu, 30-Aug-84 13:23:08 EDT
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Re: 50 year rape record in Texas city

Your method of computing this statistic ignores the fact that over
50 years the population will not be static; many new women will be
born or move into the population, as others will die or move out.

I would suspect for a population of 500,000 women in a city over
50 years, the number of different women living there for some period
would number several million at least, so that really throws your
results out the window, doesn't it?

Note: this is not to deny the seriousness of rape as a societal
      problem.  Let's just watch carefully how we play with numbers.