re: #235 Bagua

One of the only known factors that appears in 28% to 93% of the studies cases is certainly a “key” factor, though not the only or even necessarily the major factor.

I’m sorry, but your lack of acknowledgement of what I’m saying doesn’t make it circular.

As I’ve said, if you do not know the other factors, you cannot evaluate to know if they are key or not. It might be found, for example, that physical, rather than sexual abuse is a larger factor. And if you can’t actually tell if something occurs with a frequency of 28% or 93%, it’s obviously not in the least bit a settled part of research.

For example, from this paper:

springerlink.com

Further analysis demonstrated, however, that pedophiles who admitted having an erotic interest in children significantly more often claimed that they had been sexually abused as children than pedophiles who did not admit having such feelings. This interdependence renders the reliability of these self-reports questionable

You are depending largely on self-reporting from pedophiles for your analysis. There are obvious problems with that.

Stop being so argumentative.

I’m not going to stop pointing out the flaws in your arguments, no.