Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84 exptools; site iham1.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!cbosgd!ihnp4!iham1!cbd From: cbd@iham1.UUCP (deitrick) Newsgroups: net.women Subject: Pornography, Rape, and Statistics Message-ID: <454@iham1.UUCP> Date: Thu, 26-Sep-85 13:59:27 EDT Article-I.D.: iham1.454 Posted: Thu Sep 26 13:59:27 1985 Date-Received: Sat, 28-Sep-85 05:44:16 EDT Distribution: net Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories Lines: 12 There may be a correlation between pornography and rape, but that doesn't mean that there is a cause and effect relationship. I can show a correlation between my age and the number of computers in use in this country, but it doesn't mean that the increase in my age *causes* an increase in the number of computers in this country. Stephen Jay Gould's "The Mismeasure of Man" talks about this at greater length. Carl Deitrick ihnp4!iham1!cbd Personally, pornography doesn't do me any good: my pornograph is broken. Something wrong in the pre-amp, I believe. :-) Brought to you by Super Global Mega Corp .com