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Feb 7, 2023·edited Feb 7, 2023

Lets noodle them even further

The stats you are responding to are extremely misleading. It is not true that there were zero black victim/white perpetrator rapes. How could you see that statistic and not be skeptical? Look at the footnote.

*Estimate based on 10 or fewer sample cases

So they asked 10 or fewer black victims and none of them had been raped by a white person so they applied it to the total number of victims. It's actually shocking that they would report numbers based on such a small sample.

Second obvious factor is that the vast majority of rapes/sexual assaults happen within relationships of some kind (date rape). There are far more black male /white female relationships than there are white male / black female relationships. So you would expect some disparity between the number. Also due to the fact they count "verbal threats of rape or sexual assault" in these numbers.

And lastly, the pool of potential white victims (PWV) is 5x as large as the pool of potential black victims (PBV). This would negate your whole theory. (But statistics aren't my strength so maybe I am missing something)

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Many thanks for pointing out that the estimate was based on 10 or fewer sample cases. This is a very important fact I have overlooked. I, too, find it shocking that they used such a small sample of Black women!

You are also right in pointing out that most rapes/sexual assaults happen in relationships of some kind and that the pool of potential white victims is much larger than the pool of potential Black victims.

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Ha! That was a smooth way to play it off. I don't think anyone noticed

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