Stat of the Week Competition Winner: June 9-15 2012

Thanks to those who nominated in last week’s Stat of the Week competition.

This week we’re awarding Lindsay Mitchell’s nomination of the NZ Herald’s editorial which stated that “The vast majority of child abuse is perpetrated by men.”

There are numerous official sources that disprove this claim. For instance: Fig 7. Number of female and male abusers of specific types of abuse and neglect 2006 (pg 117) and Apprehensions for assault on a child (pg 10)

This isn’t a new bad stat, but keeps cropping up in the media.