Comments on: Addressing some common misconceptions about rape and sexual assault https://www.spencergreenberg.com/2022/01/addressing-some-common-misconceptions-about-rape-and-sexual-assault/ Mon, 31 Jan 2022 03:47:12 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: Peter Gerdes https://www.spencergreenberg.com/2022/01/addressing-some-common-misconceptions-about-rape-and-sexual-assault/#comment-26140 Fri, 21 Jan 2022 22:19:31 +0000 https://www.spencergreenberg.com/?p=2621#comment-26140 You don’t really address the question here of whether things like not reporting immediately or staying friends with the perpetrator are evidence against the claim. It’s totally possible those things happen relatively frequently in cases of sexual assault yet remain (partial) evidence against the claims being genuine simply because they are more common in false accusations than in genuine allegations.

Seems to me like what you want to argue is that such conduct is not reason to assume the allegations can’t be genuine not that they don’t somewhat adjust the conditional probability down.

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