Meetup : Frankfurt: How to improve your life
Discussion article for the meetup : Frankfurt: How to improve your life WHEN: 28 September 2014 02:00:00PM (+0200) WHERE: Frankfurt We're having another meetup! Join our mailing list (https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/less-wrong-frankfurt) for more information. This meetup will have the theme "How to improve your life". Details are going to be published in time. The meetup will happen at Ginnheimer Landstraße again. If you have special needs re. the meetup (because of social anxiety, being a wheel chair user, whatever) please tell me in advance, I'll try to accommodate them as best as I can. Discussion article for the meetup : Frankfurt: How to improve your life
I haven't listened to the podcast, Christian summoned me here since I am the person he's mentioning.
I take it the claim is roughly that people who make an effort to tackle sexual violence don't actually believe the percentage of women on campus who've experienced sexual violence is around 20% and think it's lower (while the 20% is just a belief in belief).
In arguments I usually go with numbers like one third or one sixth of women (all women, not only campus aged ones) have been raped, because those are what the statistics usually say. Personally, while I find it a lot more plausible now, those numbers have seemed unbelievably low to me... (read more)