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Is it faulty because of the qualifier "much"? It has to be taken with further context, this was just an illustrative example. I'm sure if, for example, you ride motorbikes a vast number of deaths are the fault of the driver.

> all care related death have been caused by "other" people

this doesn't follow from the example I gave. The point is you can't use statistical averages for a decision that likely will have far more context to it.

In this case the discrepancy between sex-offenders in the entire population vs all candidates for a carer position, the least of which is most abuse happening in-family, excluding all those example from the case of a carer that is not family.



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