Des-Bal wrote:Ostroeuropa wrote:
"Equally likely" is an example of not correct.
Sure, if you read it as meaning 1 in 3 men are rapemurderers but why stop there? Why not read it to mean 1 in 3 men are literally jack sparrow, jack Ryan, or jack the ripper? That shocks the conscious, it would mean all nonficitional men are one english prostitute killer, it would require a conspiracy of a magnitude I can hardly imagine!
Of course this would be undercut by the previous sentence saying you probably aren't someone who would ever hurt a woman and be a shocking departure from the general tendency of the text to focus on women's feelings.
Personally I think 90% of men are none of the three, so they still wrong.