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Another biased DV story
posted by Matt on 06:16 PM December 27th, 2004
Domestic Violence Ric writes "Sydney's leading daily newspaper has just run another story about domestic violence and you guessed it - no mention of violence against men or against children. RespectYourMan has set up a protest page with sample email to send to the columnist - Piers Akerman. This is the third DV article along these lines in this newspaper in the last 12 months. Enough!

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Oh really.... (Score:2)
by jenk on 11:53 AM December 30th, 2004 EST (#1)
"Alice Spigelman, the Benevolent Society's director of business development, says one in four women have experienced domestic violence but many women never tell anyone about "intimate partner violence", and that almost 85 per cent of women do not seek professional help or report incidents of violence to the police."

SO she is making a statement of frequency, then 'proving' the numbers by claiming that the majority never report it. However, she has no studies supporting her theory that 85% of women do not report, therefore 1/4 of all women are abused. In other words, she is making it up. You would think they would try to be a little more subtle when making up data. This was one of the more obvious I have seen.


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