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Great website with stats about true status of adolescent girls all over the world.

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SkaterGrrrrl · 08/10/2014 10:58

May come in useful when debating with certain trolls! :)

www.girlsdiscovered.org

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UptoapointLordCopper · 03/12/2014 15:06

Sorry further derail. Blush Please ignore.

UptoapointLordCopper · 03/12/2014 15:05

I don't care which referencing system you use. Just don't use Microsoft Word. >

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GirlsDiscovered · 03/12/2014 12:40

Hi everyone,

Thanks for your interest in the GirlsDiscovered project!

We are having a webinar on the issues facing adolescent girls on 11 Dec at 3pm GMT, and we though you might be interested in joining us. The webinar will be covering issues such as the latest research and global data on violence against girls, girls living with HIV/AIDS, refugee and displaced girls and girls' health and wellbeing.

Click here to register

The webinar is free and open to anyone, so please do share with any friends who might be interested!

Many thanks,

The Girls Discovered Team

FloraFox · 06/11/2014 19:47

Thanks partial though I haven't seen that you did it before.

partialderivative · 06/11/2014 18:41

I've done it again.

Sorry Flora.

Shlep · 06/11/2014 18:39

In my home country, 80% of girls and 87% of boys are experiencing 'violent child discipline'. There is NO legal protection against rape within marriage/spousal rape. There is no enforcement of constitutional or legal anti-sexual discrimination clauses.

The President once said women weren't fit for presidency. Also the same guy who said that 'our women' should have no fewer than three children.

FloraFox · 06/11/2014 18:34

He didn't yonic - he noted that it was because the site had an agenda that feeble us might need his guidance.

YonicScrewdriver · 06/11/2014 18:29

Partial, did you click onto the site and through to the sources before you posted?

partialderivative · 06/11/2014 18:23

Flora, did you check my links?

Did you notice that the stats quoted didn't actually work?

(i.e the two events were not independent)

FloraFox · 06/11/2014 18:18

Hole. JFC.

FloraFox · 06/11/2014 18:18

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FloraFox · 06/11/2014 18:15

It is condescending to suggest to a group of people you don't know that you have a better grasp of how to use data than they do.

You used the fact that people do this on the MailOnline to justify what you said here. When the Mail is referred to here it is usually disparagingly.

What does that blog have to do with what is on this thread? Just because a woman with a MN blog uses data in a way you don't like, doesn't mean the posters on this thread are going to do the same (if it wasn't for you rushing in with your pearls of wisdom).

Maybe it's time to stop digging.

partialderivative · 06/11/2014 18:05

Flora, would you be happy to accept stats on MN blogs? Or would you check them?

Would you be happy if others had used them? Would you check them.

Would you have checked the data that I quoted from an MN blog?

partialderivative · 06/11/2014 17:15

To Flora Fox

This isn't MailOnline. I didn't suggest it was!! Just that people sometimes refer to it.

I am sorry if you felt I was condescending.

But I was afraid of this is a type of bollocks!

" if every rapist commits an average of ten rapes (a horrifying number, isn’t it?) then the concentration of rapists in the population is still a little over one in sixty. That means four in my graduating class in high school."

kateharding.net/2009/10/08/guest-blogger-starling-schrodinger%E2%80%99s-rapist-or-a-guy%E2%80%99s-guide-to-approaching-strange-women-without-being-maced/

This is from a guest blogger on MN

JLKMM · 06/11/2014 10:50

Thanks for sharing this SkaterGrrrrl! great find :) I just showed this to my hubby and we both think the maps are are actually really useful. I'm shocked by these statistics showing the birth rates before age 18!

and I had a closer look at the data and it seems reliable, this map shows that the data is from UNICEF and was updated in August 2014!

Great website with stats about true status of adolescent girls all over the world.
FloraFox · 05/11/2014 18:15

This isn't MailOnline. Just to be clear, your post did come over as condescending. It's really not necessary to pop onto a thread just to remind people to check their sources. If you had an issue with the data, that would be different.

marilug · 05/11/2014 17:41

I think that must be a typo. According to UNAIDS, 15% of women living with HIV are girls 15-24: www.unaids.org/sites/default/files/en/media/unaids/contentassets/documents/unaidspublication/2014/UNAIDS_Gap_report_en.pdf

I'll send them a message and let them know so they can fix it. Other than that it's a great resource!

strongandlong · 05/11/2014 17:35

It looks to me like that HIV figure isn't accurately reported. The figures here (from UNAIDS) give global prevalence of HIV/AIDS in young women as 0.4%.

It's a great site apart from that though!

partialderivative · 05/11/2014 17:27

marilug Thank you.

That is good to know.

marilug · 05/11/2014 17:22

I took a look and the sources look pretty reliable. For instance, HIV statistics come from UNICEF and UNAIDS...

partialderivative · 05/11/2014 17:20

Maybe not 'always', but it happens regularly.

Stats need to be cited.

partialderivative · 05/11/2014 17:18

partial don't you think that's a tad condescending?

No.

People are always bringing statistics out of unreliable sources on this site and many others (viz MailOnline)