Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!decvax!genrad!mit-eddie!godot!harvard!wjh12!foxvax1!brunix!browngr!jfh From: jfh@browngr.UUCP (John "Spike" Hughes) Newsgroups: net.women Subject: Re: Rape, Violence, and information concerning it. Message-ID: <1549@browngr.UUCP> Date: Thu, 8-Nov-84 12:21:06 EST Article-I.D.: browngr.1549 Posted: Thu Nov 8 12:21:06 1984 Date-Received: Sun, 11-Nov-84 20:02:39 EST References: ucf-cs.1631 Lines: 8 My suspicion is that a statistic is about as useless as an undocumented assertion: I've never trusted them at all, and that's because I know something about the methods used for deriving them. If you're going to insist on statistics, I'd like to insist on the inclusion of the methodology used in gathering the data. Besides, I find it more enlightening to read what our various net.women readers *believe* to be obvious or well known -- I can go out and try to find verification myself....