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okay, I'll look up the stats
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-45565684
https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/rape-allegations-fabricated/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26679304
What I imagine you mean is that you are able to find "studies" with cherry picked sample sizes with increasing amounts of false accusations to suit your position, and the bigger, more objective studies done to prove the lower false accusation rates you would dismiss as leftist media/libtard cuck bs/whatever else.
At any rate, fuck that guy and fuck you too if you're trying to downplay the reality of rape.
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-45565684
Here's what we do know.
Over the past 20 years, only 2-10% of rape accusations (Prof Ford's lawyer says she believes this was attempted rape) are proven to be fake, argue the authors of a 2010 US study.
That figure does not include any unsubstantiated accusations where an investigation was unable to prove a sexual assault occurred, so an accurate figure for the total remains unknown.
Other studies have figures in the same range. The FBI has put the number of "unfounded" rapes - those determined to be false after investigation - at 8%.
Fake rape accusations get a lot of attention.
Both the Duke Lacrosse team case in 2006 and the alleged University of Virginia gang rape in 2014 were widely covered by the media. They were terrible miscarriages of justice - but they were not representative.
False rape accusations very rarely lead to convictions or wrongful jail time.
A useful article in Quartz by Sandra Newman points to research from the British Home Office showing that in the early 2000s, of the 216 cases that were classified as false allegations, only six led to an arrest.
Of those, only two had charges brought against them and those two were found to be false.
The idea that lots of men are going to prison because they've been falsely accused of rape isn't supported by that study.
Moreover, official figures suggest the number of rapes and sexual assaults which are never reported or prosecuted far outweighs the number of men convicted of rape because of fake accusations.
Indeed it far outweighs the number of fake accusations, period.
Figures from the US Bureau of Justice Statistics suggest only 35% of all sexual assaults are even reported to the police.
https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/rape-allegations-fabricated/
A 2017 study utilized FBI data over the five-year period from 2006 to 2010 to conclude that “approximately 5% of the allegations of rape were deemed false or baseless” during that time period. A 2016 meta-analysis of seven studies addressing the same question estimated that 5.2% of rape allegations were false.
Furthermore, sexual assaults are among the most underreported form of crime: a majority of rapes, attempted rapes, and other sexual assaults go unreported.
Estimates vary, but researchers have concluded that the percentage of rapes reported to formal agencies is “quite low, ranging from 5–33%.” This would suggest that the pool of victims in position to make credible claims is much larger than the pool of people included in analyses of false reporting.
While the precise proportion of false rape reports may be undetermined, the most recent and credible research on this topic suggests that around 5% of rape or sexual assault allegations are false. No study has ever suggested anything close to 99% of such reports are false, and based on the most recent research, no study ever will.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26679304
The objective of the study was to determine, through meta-analysis, the rate of confirmed false reports of sexual assault to police. The meta-analysis initially involved a search for relevant articles. The search identified seven studies where researchers or their trained helpers evaluated reported sexual assault cases to determine the rate of confirmed false reports. The meta-analysis calculated an overall rate and tested for possible moderators of effect size. The meta-analytic rate of false reports of sexual assault was .052 (95 % CI .030, .089). The rates for the individual studies were heterogeneous, suggesting the possibility of moderators of rate. However, the four possible moderators examined-year of publication, whether the data set used had information in addition to police reports, whether the study was completed in the U.S. or elsewhere, and whether inter-rater reliabilities were reported-were all not significant. The meta-analysis of seven relevant studies shows that confirmed false allegations of sexual assault made to police occur at a significant rate. The total false reporting rate, including both confirmed and equivocal cases, would be greater than the 5 % rate found here.
KEYWORDS:
False allegations; Meta-analysis; Rape; Sexual assault
What I imagine you mean is that you are able to find "studies" with cherry picked sample sizes with increasing amounts of false accusations to suit your position, and the bigger, more objective studies done to prove the lower false accusation rates you would dismiss as leftist media/libtard cuck bs/whatever else.
At any rate, fuck that guy and fuck you too if you're trying to downplay the reality of rape.