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I have taken the liberty of re-posting the statistics kindly given by our fellow contributor
@jus. It occurred to me that we had all completely missed the significance of this posting. To me this is the
Killer Stat that proves beyond doubt that
the level of rape in India is far below that of most western countries. The statistics as supplied by our 'independent' friends the British. You see I trust British statistics being British myself (OCI) and because they have no reason to present India in a good light, unless it really is true.
First of all, these are official British Government statistics. Here is the full link:
As we saw from the previously posted stats the number of rapes reported by British Tourists for India for the two year period was
Zero. However, here we see that the number of British visitors is
842,000. Now you might think that we cannot compare this to the 53 rapes that occurred in Spain in the same period as the total number of visitors is about 14 times larger at 11,749,000. But the point is that we can extrapolate if the 842,000 is a
statistically representative and consistent sample size.
I.e. if the same type of people went to India as do at the moment multiplied by 14, then the number of rapes in India will be 14*Zero = Zero.
Now the above Zero-rape clearly cannot be guaranteed because, as the number of tourists expands then clearly we will start to get more of the types of tourists that currently go to Spain. But this is more a factor of the type of tourists that visit, as opposed to the inherent sexual nature of Indian men, as the western media would have us believe. Also we already get the drug taking sexually-free types already going to place like Goa. So there is no reason to doubt that we cannot assume that the 842,000 is not a statistically useful sample to demonstrate that the number of rapes in India per visitor is hugely lower than the number of rapes in Spain.
In support of the above statement, if we look at tourist visitor sizes similar to India we see that the number of rapes per visitor is significantly smaller than Cyprus, Thailand and Egypt. Indieed we are similar to Canada which I recall is consistent with some of the per capita reported stats we have been seeing elsewhere approx. 1.8 per 100 thousand.
My point being that these statistics negate the arguments that
1) Indian women are less likely to report rapes (these are 'British' women)
2) Western women are vulnerable to attack by Indian men (they clearly are not)
3) Indian statistics are unreliable (These are western statistics).
B.T.W. I have a degree in Mathematics and Statistics - albeit a long time ago.
I would welcome your thoughts on whether these are the Killer Stats I think they are.