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Welcome. This is going to be an abbreviated version of an article I wrote about domestic violence. You can find the link up there in that corner. At any rate, I found this article on the web. The headline was, how did it go? One in five men admits to being violent against their spouse.
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I thought, wow, that's quite a few. But then I thought, yeah, but that's pretty typical. I mean, most of the research we've seen on domestic violence has focused on male perpetrators and female victims. So it didn't really surprise me so much. But I looked on the web and what did I find?
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I found article after article after article that had this headline, you know, one in five males is violent against their spouse. One in five males is, is, guilty of domestic violence against their loved one. I mean, just over and over again. It's almost like these articles were sort of gleeful in finding that these men were actually,

This one was recorded quite some time ago but is very instructive in showing the bias of the research and the researcher in issues related to domestic violence. I go into my discussions with the researcher and show his responses. It is an eye opener as is the incredible bias of the actual research. Sadly similar things continue to this day.
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The title is intentionally provocative and meant to poke fun at the ways that research is being used to implicate men as the primary problem of domestic violence. Then again, the title is not that far from the truth. This video will have a look at the underbelly of one research study on domestic violence that created a good deal of headlines. Those headlines? They read over and over again that 1 in 5 men admitted to being violent in relationship. The video will take a look at how they got those numbers and also offer a glimpse of the story that they DIDN'T tell you. That story is that the data used for this study showed clearly that the women admitted to considerably more violence than the men. Have a look.

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