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What the raw number tells me is different than the relationship to the total.
For example, lets look at marketing. Lets say you have a market segmentation of 90% that like feature A, and 10% that like feature B. Most people would stop there and think you should go after the feature A set people.
In reality, what you would need to do is look at your expected penetration rate, cost of features A vs B, total revenue, ect. So, it may run out that the lower number is more meaningful depending on a set of factors.
Now, in relation to this topic. Because it does happen a lot, even if its still small in relation, means it should not be ignored as so unlikely to not worry. All he said is that it happens more than many realize. I would be the reason for saying that is he thinks people are too quick to dismiss the possibility that it could be false.
"It happens more than people realize" is meaningless unless he knows how often people think it happens. If he thinks he's debating people who believe it never happens, then he's just making a politically convenient assumption.
If you told me you could find 10 cases of false allegations of literally any crime in the universe, I wouldn't be in the least bit surprised. Given the number of allegations, it would be quite bizarre if you couldn't find at least 10. Heck, that's just what he's found searching google. There's probably many more. So what he's tell us is nothing really. What we need to know is how likely the allegation is to be false.
Would be useful to know if hate crime allegations are more or less likely to be true than say, rape allegations, or murder allegations, or fraud allegations. Show me something on that and you will have provided something useful.