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Most sex offenders are men, does not mean most men are sex offenders. Nor does it mean that most men who want to go into childcare are sex offenders. You're in
by Loughla 5y ago
Most sex offenders are men, does not mean most men are sex offenders. Nor does it mean that most men who want to go into childcare are sex offenders.
You're inferring results from faulty logic.
- guerrilla 5y ago> Most sex offenders are men, does not mean most men are sex offenders I didn't argue it does. It does mean that men are riskier hires though (by whatever marginal percent.)
- mikem170 5y agoA lot of people are being punished for this marginal percent you mention.
- guerrilla 5y agoHumans are by default pretty terrible at risk assessment, so yeah.
- dathinab 5y agoThat's not how it works as: Most sex offenders are not kindergarten teachers... Most are family members or "friends of the family". Also there is a strong bias leading to female sex offenders being much less often convicted (partially because they are also much less often reported).
- flavius29663 5y agobut it does mean that there's a higher chance that a stranger male is a sex offender than a stranger female.