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Comment author: JQuinton 07 January 2014 06:49:29PM 1 point [-]

At first glance that fear seems to be a result of the availability heuristic. Women are much more likely to be assaulted by someone they know, not by a random stranger that they meet when they go out in public. But the random stranger in public assault is the one that's more well known in the popular consciousness.