Rape and Belief

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as you were the one handing in a paper early, and you did an excellent paper, you deserve feedback and might make a few changes for a final version tomorrow:

p2:the two conditionals might use ==> as a symbol for A entails B i.e A ==> B The second conditional can be restated equivalently as Belief in female inferiority (N=11) ==> Rape (N=24) with one exception. The converse has over 50% exceptions as you note later.

p.3 affects --> effects (use the correct verb) some balanced commas missing in the next sentence

p4: discrepancy not indiscrepancy

p5: whole --> whole, commas should balance

p7 disproving/opposing --> opposing

tau-b numbers --> tau-b significance numbers

data: delete those case processing summaries

The "near zero" cell in the 2x2 cross tab is upper left. It replicates in all regions but E Eurasia where the correlation is still consistently negative, and in all religions except Buddhism. The Islamic case is not inconsistent, but merely missing data in column 2 so there is no reason to question your finding.

But in the text (which can be simplified, then) you are correct: the belief is not the only cause, if you want to use that term, associated with rape, there have to be others, because the belief is present in less than 50% of the cases with rape.

I think you are sufficiently well advanced in this paper that you can uniquely so far appreciate the subtlety of the conditional relationship you find, also called a near-zero cell in a two-by-two cross tab.