Does anyone dispute the fact that the 'false allegations of rape are common' myth is dangerous?

[Drahthaardogs]

104. Define common please.

The quoted "study" is fairly poor, yet there are reasonably good British studies out there. Specifically


1999 British Home Office Study

or

2005 British Home Office Study.

The 2005 study is much more complete and shows a much lower incidence of false rape claims than the 1999 study. Still, over a 15-year period, it showed an incidence of around 3%.

This, would substantiate the claim that false accusations are indeed, "rare" and not common; yet they are orders of magnitude beyond the %.6 quoted earlier.

In my mind, the question then becomes how common or uncommon is 1 out of 33 ?

However, adding to the confusion is that fact that the UK has had an abysmal conviction rate for rape (even as late as 2002), and of course, they have a different set of laws, different burdens of proof, and a different social structure.

I would not extrapolate ANYTHING from the UK study and apply it to U.S. culture. I would, however, use it as a general line of evidence for an overall informational purposes.