Swedish journalist: Data can be interpreted

Swedish journalist Kajsa Ekis Ekman says data can be interpreted and warns that statistics, like rape numbers, can be misleading.

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00:00Now, let me just say something about the data that the Polish comrade presented.

00:04Data doesn't lie, but it can be interpreted.

00:06I think you know very well that there are countries where there are zero rape cases reported.

00:14Does that mean that there is no rape in these countries?

00:17Or does that mean that women don't dare to report?

00:21You don't have zero. You have one of the highest levels in Europe.

00:24There is a campaign during many, many years that encouraged women to report rape, you know, from the police and from society.

00:34So reported rape cases do not reflect actual rapes.

00:37They represent, and every researcher knows this, propensity of denouncing rapes.

00:44Now, second of all, you have to know that in Sweden, if one man rapes one woman a hundred times, that counts as a hundred rapes.

00:51In some countries, that counts as one rape.

00:53So you have to know how to understand and analyze statistics as well.

00:57You can't just hold up a paper, comrade.