As to "playing the statistics games"...sometimes it is how the the stats are collected....sometimes it is how the information is grouped together, and other information and confounding elements excluded....sometimes it is how the statistics are used to prove a point (like comparing one thing to a somewhat or totally different thing)...and sometimes the games involve the conclusions made...many times without actual logical analysis. That's what "the statistics game" often represents.

To me, comparing reports of sexual abuse in an institution to reports of sexual abuse in the general population is self serving is not a reasonable comparison and to me is misleading..and I suggest possibly even intentionally misleading. Comparing sexual abuse in other institutions may be more logical, if confounding factors are noted. In the RC case, the 5 percent figure....which may be the best that one has....but is unlikely accurate is illogically compared with general sexual abuse figures.

The reason is a very huge percentage of sexual abuse reports are in a home relationship or associated with dating type activities. When this is taken out of the figures, and it is limited to other similar institutions, I suspect the comparison would be much less positive...likely why few, who wish to make a point, take this route.