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Is that 'Thomson Reuters' survey saying India is the worse country for women being discussed in Indian media much? Its a pile of rubbish. Here's how. #Thread
First- the data didn't come out of any of the real parameters. This was completely 'Perception based poll'. Here is the methodology on their own website. poll2018.trust.org/methodology/
Worse than pseudoscience. #ThomsonReuters
For about a month, they sent questions to 759 'Journalists, Academics, NGO workers, Social commentators' out of which 548 (72%) responded. Even those who responded didn't respond to all the questions. Sampling and bias in sampling make #ThomsonReuters data worse than rubbish.
If I put the Indian Skeptic thinking hat on, I believe the 'greedy' ones scored their own countries worst because the 'NGO, Journalism and Social commentators' probably thought there would be a 'prize' for being worse off. #ThomsonReuters
Those 'afraid' of backlash probably ranked their own countries better than really are. Here are a few examples:
Cultural aspects adverse to women: Countries like Pakistan, Congo, DRC, Nigeria, Saudi Arabia... all Islamic countries many of which have rampant genital mutilation, polygamy, sexual slavery and subjugation.. all are rated better than India. Really??!
on 'Sexual Violence' India scores worst (lowest score), and fares worse than USA and Pakistan but even worse than the sex-slaving war torn ISIS run Syria! How credible is that?
Talking of US and Pakistan in the context of sexual violence in comparison of India will be challenged by some. On reported cases, Pakistan stands 6th highest in number of rape cases per population in the world. gazettereview.com/2017/03/top-10…
So, Pakistan, South Africa, Sweden, being far worse than India in per population sexual violence cases is a statistical fact, while India being worse than Syria, Congo, Pakistan, Nigeria and Somalia is the 'Perception Poll' #ThomsonReuters like you to believe.
In 'Human Trafficking' of women, India fares worst than Bangladesh, Myanmar, Russia, even Thailand. Yeah, right! #ThomsonReuters
Effectively, this #ThomsonReuters survey should now be republished as a research in 'Media and Opinions Freedom'. The countries where the reporters have voted worse than reality obviously have 'too much' media freedom, the countries where problems under-reported, are scary!

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