Following the link, I found that the issue in question is a recent column by George Will regarding sexual assault statistics. If only Vox Day would follow his own good advice.
Here's a rationality quote from the above link that expresses the same notion as Vox Day's, but has the virtue of concluding a post that actually exercises the kind of critical thinking in question:
when [George Will’s] numbers didn’t add up, he didn’t think critically about what the numbers mean and where they came from. He didn’t research the source of the data or determine if they were compatible, and instead, he willfully tried to minimize the assaults that 1 in 5 college women say they have personally experienced (which, for the record, comes from several different studies). He looked for a loophole, rather than applying critical thinking.
According to Wikipedia:
Estimates vary greatly as to the number of women who experience a sexual assault during college, with surveys focused on the United States placing it as low as 1 in 50 (2%)[1] to as high as 1 in 4 (25%).
It seems to me that if studies get so much variance they are likely to be methodologically flawed, if not outright fraudolent.
...Rape prevalence among women in the U.S. (the percentage of women who experienced rape at least once in their lifetime so far) is in the range of 15–20%, with different studies disagreeing with ea
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