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Closer to 1/10. The 1/4 figure comes from a study where only 1/14 women self-identified as being raped.

Regardless, too many, and the reference to rape in the original article was unnecessary. But, repeating nice round inaccurate statistics to exaggerate a problem is also dangerous.



Fair point.




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