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That doesn't tell much, the important stat is how big of a risk is there that a given person will be abducted at all. Obviously 73% sounds horrifying but 73% of what percentage of the population? Who's doing the abducting? Are there other factors that increase your risk bf being abducted?
73% of abductions are females. Therefore 27% of abductions are male.
100 % of lightning victims are people.
And 50% of my phalanges are on my left side.
Okay, but how big of a risk is there for actually being abducted. How many people total out of a given population are victims? Are there other factors like primarily family members, or location based or things like that? Just knowing that most abductees are women doesn't really tell you how concerned women need to be about this. Not arguing for or against the idea, I don't have the data. Just saying the stat you're using by itself isn't valuable.