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Reading stories like this makes people think that all pedophiles are stupid, but then again, as with any other crime, it's only the stupid ones who get caught...

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An estimated 1% of men are pedophiles. It's kind of like finding gays in Saudi Arabia. They don't advertise their presence. I heard from an old lady that there were no gays in the Soviet Union until they got infected by the west when it collapsed.

>An estimated 1% of men are pedophiles.

I really wanna see how they made those estimations. How many percent of Woman's are pedophiles then?

Jesus, is that some sort of proven statistic? Because if it's accurate that's orders of magnitude more than what I expected. No wonder they seem to come out of the woodwork lately, but still, kind of chilling.

In Hollywood's high-circles it's probably more like 15% (estimated)

Estimated 42% of hacker news users work in the tech industry.

True...nice to see that other peoples are in the Bigdata-oracle-thingi too, still i think it's 42.8% ;)

I don't think they're stupid, but I do think they're like addicts. They can't control their compulsion, or they would.

One of the reasons most criminals get caught, is because they think they are smarter than all other criminals, and only the stupid ones get caught. No criminal thinks they are stupid.

The ones that don't get caught are typically full on psychopaths, because they are random and don't have an MO that identifies them.

Most criminals definetely dont get caught. Look at drug consumption for example: it never ever went down in history.

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