re: #249 Bagua

Bagua: One of the papers talking about the percentage of pedophiles who self-report as having been abused notes that these self-reports are of questionable validity. The proper response to this is not to abuse me, but to acknowledge that that is, indeed, a problem with making the argument that abuse is a key factor in the cause of pedophilia.

In this case, I am following the pattern of knowing quite a lot about this subject, and showing the logical flaws in your argument.

1. You are claiming that in a subject where we don’t know all of the factors that something has been determined to be a key factor.

2. You are presenting an incidence of 28% to 98% as though it is significant, when it obviously shows that we are not very confident at all about the actual incidence.

3. You are failing to acknowledge that the very people doing this research are warning that relying on self-reporting from pedophiles is very questionable.