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Originally Posted by Margaret Pilkington
I am very mistrusting of statistics......they can be portrayed to mean anything and are too easy to manipulate. Especially by governemnt departments who want the electorate to think they are doing well.....when actually they aren't.
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Its easy to manipulate statistics but I would expect the government wouldnt say 3% of criminals in prison are paedophiles. They would more likely put forward that, for example only, 98% paedophiles are in prison, only 2% remain in society etc.
More children are seen to be sexually abusing others for a good reason and youa re indeed right, its not because of manipulation as such but change in whats acceptable for a child to do in sexual experimentation. Its a shame I dont have someone to verify my age because I have a good example of this change of acceptance but the article has some terms and a picture that some people wont like their children to see so it'd be more suited in the 18+ section.