Showing posts with label Availability Heuristic. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Availability Heuristic. Show all posts

Wednesday, 21 August 2013

The Risk To Children Of Sexual Assault, Abduction Or Murder By A Stranger Is Tiny

Wed, Aug 21, 2013, 01:00

Men are being done a disservice by society’s paedophilia [sic] paranoia

"Believing a sexual predator lurks behind every tree is neither healthy nor commendable"

"This phenomenon is what psychologists call the “availability heuristic” – the lazy and often inaccurate way we are inclined to make assumptions about how likely something is to happen, based on how easy it is to think of examples."

http://www.irishtimes.com/life-and-style/men-are-being-done-a-disservice-by-society-s-paedophilia-paranoia-1.1499903#.UhTSy6ll2PM.twitter

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17th August 2013

Felicity Gerry on sex, children and the law

"Of course children can agree to do things that are wrong – consent to sex/rape where they know what they are doing is wrong either socially or in the specific situation."

http://www.criminallawandjustice.co.uk/blog/Felicity-Gerry-sex-children-and-law

8 August 2013

Robert Colover investigation: the misunderstandings around sex offence trials

http://www.halsburyslawexchange.co.uk/robert-colover-investigation-the-misunderstandings-around-sex-offence-trials/