Is India the most dangerous country for women?

in india •  7 years ago 

No.

Thomson Reuters Foundation (a not-for-profit arm of Thomson Reuters). They conducted a poll back in 2011 and asked a bunch of experts on the topic of female rights and treatments a few questions, and published the results. This year’s piece was a follow-up on the same.

The methodology page on the website mentions,

We contacted 548 experts focused on women’s issues including aid and development professionals, academics, health workers, policymakers, non-government organisation workers, journalists, and social commentators.

All of the experts were asked to list:

5 most dangerous countries in the world for women
6 compound questions pertaining to 6 different facets - healthcare, discrimination, traditions, sexual violence, non-sexual violence, and trafficking
The first question was given a weightage of 25%, the remaining 6, 75% (or 12.5% each). And here is the first fallacy - the first question is a repeat of the 6 that follow. A country is 5 times more likely to be named there than the other 6 (which ask for only one option), but is only given twice as much weightage. But that’s probably nit-picking.

The major problem with the survey design is that it is open-ended. There are 193 countries in the world and picking out one based on personal assessment and perception will never be objective. It is going to be biased against bigger/more popular countries (they are more likely to be named).
Read more about it to know more.

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To the question in your title, my Magic 8-Ball says:

It is decidedly so

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