[concretemarble]

What if they say "Only a small portion of the females were harassed in our company! They are not broadly and uniformly harassed! How dare you say we have a constant sexual harassment problem!"

I don't think this logic makes sense. For things that shouldn't happen in the first place, just a few cases speak a lot.

[blacktriangle]

Then single out the individuals performing the harassment and bring specific charges.

Like the GP says, this suit is not really talking about a singular crime, it's trying to paint a 10k+ organization spread across the globe as some parody of a frat house gone wrong.

Your point is sarcastic but is exactly the point. If only a small portions of the females were harassed, then specify the nature of the harassment and bring criminal charges against the harassers, don't try and paint a massive multinational with a very very broad brush and use that as some kind of proof.

[concretemarble]

Your logic is flawed in that you didn't clarify the definition of "small". How small are we talking about? This is a simple statistical question.

Calculate the number of sexual harassment reports of all US companies normalized by employee counts, and check if the number of sexual harassments at Blizzard is statically significantly higher. If so, then it is plain reasonable to suspect Blizzard has certain issues that cause this.

Whether the females are broadly and uniformly harassed is not a good indicator. As long as the rate is significantly higher than other company, it could indicate some problem and is worth investigation, even if the total number of harassment cases are small compared to the total female employees.

[adamrezich]

> For things that shouldn't happen in the first place, just a few cases speak a lot.

what does this mean? assuming the allegations are true, then yes, these things shouldn't have happened, you won't find anyone who disagrees with that. but what does "just a few cases speak a lot" mean? are we supposed to infer that because these cases are being prosecuted, that there's much more misogynistic evil happening beneath the surface at Activision Blizzard, enough to spread to their entire corporate culture at some deep, primal level? that's quite the supposition! "some bad people, especially those with power over others, did some bad things" is much easier to believe.