Psychiatry Online: Young women commit domestic violence 130+% more often than men

Submitted by jayhammers on Thu, 2010-01-28 00:56

Article here. Excerpt:

'In addressing intimate partner violence, the focus is usually on women who are physically battered by husbands or boyfriends. However, women sometimes hurt their partners as well.
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Women are doing virtually everything these days that men are—working as doctors, lawyers, and rocket scientists; flying helicopters in combat; riding horses in the Kentucky Derby. And physically assaulting their spouses or partners.

In fact, when it comes to nonreciprocal violence between intimate partners, women are more often the perpetrators.

These findings on intimate partner violence come from a study conducted by scientists at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). The lead investigator was Daniel Whitaker, Ph.D., a behavioral scientist and team leader at the National Center for Injury Prevention and Control (which is part of the CDC). Results were published in the May Journal of Public Health.'

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Here's the URL for the graphic in the article:
http://pn.psychiatryonline.org/content/42/15/31.2/embed/graphic-1.gif

It says 70.7% of NON-RECIPROCAL DV among heterosexual couples in the given age group is done by women while around 50% of *all* DV in non-reciprocal. The math it seems is more straight-forward than the OP mentioned though the final result is actually different, concluding that the women in this group who are non-recip aggressors do so at almost 138% the rate of men.

The details: For non-reciprocal DV vs. men, the math is .70 * .50 = .35, or 35%. So what this says is that 35% of all relationships have the female as the sole aggressor. Feminists will be tempted to do the wrong math though and say 1.0 - .35 = .65 and say that thus "the remaining 65%" is done by men. This what happens when you don't look at the graph though.

For men, the math is this: .293 (ie, non-recip by men) * .503 (non-recip DV) = 0.147, 14.7%. [How you ask is this possible? Because this is a calculation that is once-removed from a starting value of 100% (ie, "all relationships"). The calculation begins with some number less than 1.0 (in this case, ~.25), since the beginning point is a subset of relationships that have violence in them.]

Now to the OP's numbers: Young women are the non-recip aggressors at 35% while young men are the non-recip aggressors at 14.7%. So actually, young women are sole aggressors at roughly 138% the rate of young men: .35 - .147 = .203. To get the %age ratio of the .203 value to the .147 value, we divide and multiply by 100: (.203/.147) * 100 = 138%

That said, someone please tell me: How do they define "violence"?

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Submitted by Matt on Thu, 2010-01-28 20:44

A different calculation.

The numbers from the article for non-reciprocal violence are:

1669 female perpetrated
670 male perpetrated

1669/2339 = .7136 or 71.36% are female perpetrated (Where do they get 70.7%?) and
670/2339 = .2864 or 28.64% are male perpetrated.

So, for every hundred acts of non-reciprocal domestic violence lets round the numbers and say 71 are perpetrated by females and 29 are perpetrated by males (give the ladies the benefit of the doubt - chivalry is a hard habit to break)

71/29 = 2.49

Females committed 2.49 times as many acts of violence in non-reciprocal relationships.

Or stated differently, women are 149% more likely to commit non-reciprocal acts of violence.

OR as it might be reported in the media:

Violence against women is underestimated by 249% based on a study showing the frequency with which women defend themselves against potentially violent men.

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Submitted by Arty on Fri, 2010-01-29 00:09

Good points.

Here's another one.

Open Your Eyes by Jay Hammers

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Submitted by jayhammers on Sat, 2010-01-30 04:32