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This article researches one of the greatest debates in the court system false allegations of sexual assault. The police decided to give Northeastern University 136 rape cases to determine the percentage of false allegations over a ten-year period 8 (5.9%) was coded as false allegations. Northeastern University conducted their research and came up with a different result prevalence of false allegations, which was between 2% and 10%. Coding was established by comparing the classifications made by the two teams across all 136 cases and 4 coding categories. Of the 136 “decisions,” there was disagreement on only 7, yielding a 94.9% rate of agreement

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