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here again, the question from the op turns back up. for example: where does this statistical information come from? in this instance, i have no particular commitment concerning the accuracy of it beyond wondering how such a claim could be made if an effect of the church's sense of remove from temporal authority (say) was a pretty effective cover-up and if that cover-up was locally organized and of involves different, disconnected networks of priests and boys information about which surfaces at arbitrary intervals?
wouldn't you think that information environment would create problems for statistical arguments?
(i mean unless we're in the space of the poisson distribution as outlined at the start of gravity's rainbow. you know, the model in which information about the location of the last v-2 strike has no bearing on the probabilities concerning any subsequent v-2 strike. it turns out that the missles are falling in a pattern that outlines the profile of a baby's head.)
so what makes you inclined to see in this situation a "normal" distribution of child molestation and a "other than normal" media apparatus which is reacting, presumably disproportionately in your view, to a cover-up?
so the problem is the cover-up and not the molestations of young boys by religious authority figures. because that's "normal". statistically speaking of course.
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