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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It is assumed that pedophiles make up under 1% of the general population, but that doesn't mean that you have &lt; 1/100 chance of selecting a pedophile babysitter. It's estimated that between 96% to 99% of convicted child sex offenders are male. We know that many pedophiles try to gain access to children, so[b] if you take a selection of males who want to babysit, you would find a much higher percentage of those males are pedophiles than the general population[/b]. It's self-selection. So #notallmen, but the ones who actively pursue babysitting are more likely than the general population. [/quote]

This reminds me of an internet brouhaha forever ago when an airline announced they wouldn't seat unaccompanied minors next to men on flights and people were OUTRAGED that men were being stereotyped.  But if you dug into the data they based the decision on, the kids that were being sexually harassed and assaulted were *not* being assaulted by men they were randomly seated next to, it was men who saw an unaccompanied minor and [i]volunteered[/i] to be seated next to them.  Most men on an airplane are not creeps.  Men raising their hand, unprompted, to be seated next to the most vulnerable travelers, are more likely to be creeps.  Most men in life are not predators of children.  Men actively seeking to be alone with children are more likely to be predators.[/quote]

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