Robin HansonVerified account

90% would never accuse at all, so your framing is misleading by focusing the data set only on those who would accuse.

I didn't mean to condition on accusing.

There are many reasons why victims don't accuse right away, or ever sometimes. Attitudes like yours, for example. Sometimes it might take a big push to get over those reasons. Like the realization that your assaulter is about to be in a lifetime position of national power.

Considerations like yours could lead one to answer my poll with a high %. What is so wrong about asking people the question, and seeing what are their answers? How is the urge to ask such a question a bad attitude?

This was a very bad idea that you should've run by a colleague. You've had 1700 votes and 43 likes. The extremes have almost all the votes. That should tell you something very meaningful, indeed. It has nothing to do with Kavanaugh or Ford and everything to do with Hanson.

I expect the answers to be extreme no matter who asks such a question. Feel free to ask your followers a similar question, and show me wrong.

This seems really crass. If you are serious I’ll vote. If this is just some passive-aggressive way to shame a sexual assault victim, you need to do some serious soul-searching.

I intend no shaming of anyone here.

You out-of-touch victim blaming POS. Learn a thing or 2 about victim psychology, watch HOW YOU ARE TREATING HER, and then ask that question. Why come forward if this is how people react. And you WOULD STILL blame timing had she done it earlier. So FOAD.

I have not blamed anyone. I asked a question about one issue: suspicious timing. As far as I knew, the poll answers could have given the opposite result.