s wrote:I can respond to your question where you ask what we would do with a piece of information like "Muslim men are more likely to evetease than Hindu men" but it would be rather time-consuming. I can think of several good uses for that info but the initial point of the discussion was to establish whether or not that statement is in fact true, and I will restrict myself to that. It is of course an upbrinigng thing, and I'm saying upbringing may have a positive correlation with religion (however tiny the correlation might be).
Do you really think you can establish whether that's true by posting a thread on fullhyd.com? to establish that would take at least a year of information gathering from various sources, in a subtle way (i'll get to that in a moment), and another while processing it.
then's when your real trouble begins. what do you do with the info? maybe there are useful things we can do, such as focus education at a small group of people more likely to commit an offence. However this requires a large amount of tact, or you end up having a situation like the one in the US you mentioned earlier. What has happened now that white people "know" that blacks are more likely to commit crimes? They're terrified, and blacks have an even harder time of it. Hard to protest your innocence when the jury of your peers (of all races) have been fed this little factoid by the press for years.
Presentation of these statistics is extremely important, and if you make a mess of that then it's far more damaging that not bothering in the first place.
Sexual harassment is a large problem, obviously, but tensions between religious groups in a region is a larger one, with much more damaging consequences.
anyway, i do see your point and your intentions are no doubt good, but if it's a scientific study, then a public discussion board is not the place for it, and if its not a scientific study then it's only going to do more harm than good. good points well argued though, and you kept your head with me even though im in a shitty mood and acting the _. so welcome to the board! good to have ya here.
While one who sings with his tongue on fire Gargles in the rat race choir Bent out of shape from society's pliers Cares not to come up any higher But rather get you down in the hole that he's in