[net.women] More on rape statistics

andrews@ubc-cs.UUCP (Jamie Andrews) (12/10/85)

In article <705@ccice2.UUCP> pwk@ccice2.UUCP (THE PALE AVENGER) writes:
>>> Reporter's voice-over: "The actual statistic is one in six hundred."
>In an average day?  No, that would give the chances of being raped in a year
>as 365/600 = 60% !  If however we assume that the chance of a women being
>raped in a year is 1 in 600 and that the average women lives 75 years
>we get 75 * (1/600) = .125 chance of being raped in a lifetime which is
>1 in 8.

     Both of these calculations are wrong.  Please remember your college
stats courses before making such statements.
     For instance, if the chance per day is 1 in 600, the chance per year
is (1 - ((599/600) ^ 365)).  

--Jamie.
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