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Practice Listening: Summarize Spoken Text ID: #38666 Medium Statistics
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There is a statistics that keeps being repeated ever since I started undergraduate studies. And it is that women apparently are 14 times more likely to be affected by disasters than men. And I worked on a report six years ago with audio, my previous job. And we tried to compile a series of statistics on trying to show the comparatively vulnerability of women compared to men. And I just couldn't trace that statistic back to any sources. It keeps showing reports, mostly from the UN, I'm sorry, being being cited over and over again. But there was no tracing back to an original piece of research that came up with that number is if somebody knows it, please give it to me. But it really saddens me when I see policymakers doing their homework, trying to get some key messages from research. And just using and recycling that statistic over and over again, when it's not backed up by any research.
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