Former Naughty Dog Employee Says He Was Sexually Harassed

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SpokenTruth said:

Stefan.De.Machtige said:

Poor guy. He should come out as transgender then people might believe him.

A (white?) mans word means little these days. Dark times .

If this was an attempt at humor, it failed spectacularly.
If this was a display of your mentality, it failed spectacularly.

Aeolus451 said:

There's alot of cases where it's false and the person made the accusation for money or to get attention of some sort. I'm always skeptical of this stuff by default. What's weird in this situation is that he was "fired immediately after making the accusation" and was given just 20k as hush money by sony. 

The ratio of false claim to real/unreported claims is staggering in favor of the latter.  Skepticism should never be your default.  It's why so many go unreported.  Why bother when people aren't going to believe you anyway?

A rate between 2% and 10%, depending on the study, of demonstrably false claims should not be your default position.  Since 1989, only 52 people have been exonerated from prison due to a false accusation.

So a rate between 2% and 10% are demonstrably false. What's the conviction rate? According to RAINN, it's about 1%. For the other 80-95% of cases that aren't demonstrably false or in a sense, "demonstrably true" as that is what a conviction should show, we actually do not know if the alleged sexual assault actually happened. But here you are assuming that in every case an alleged sexual assault is that isn't demonstrably false is true.

And how is this for a way to spin the numbers? Of the cases where we have extreme amounts of confidence over whether the sexual assault did occur, according to your own numbers, it's twice to ten times more likely the accusation is false.

Just food for thought.