I'd say if you offer a stat like that 11:1 stat, then go on to declare that it shows that homosexuals are more likely etc etc, and fail to offer the percentage of homosexuals in the population, and fail to point out that statistically a parent should be 1100% more fearful of hetero-pedophilia than of homo-pediphilia, you are very likely to be unconcerned about the (I'll bet) large number of quick readers who leave the paragraph thinking to themselves either, "Oh my God, a pedophile is 11 times more likely to be gay than straight," or "a gay is 11 times more likely to be a pedophile than a straight is."
When the opposite is the case.
If the stat is correct, it simply says that a given hypothesized sex offender, if gay, is some percentage (oddly not given) more statistically likely to be aroused by kiddie porn than a given hetersexual sex offender is.
Well, it says one other thing: Eleven times more heterosexuals than homosexuals were, in this test, aroused by kiddie porn.
People do such deceptive things with statistics. |
