I don’t think “people with mental illness are more likely to say in surveys that they are victim of crimes” should lead one to conclude “if someone with a mental illness tells me that they are a victim of a crime, I should believe them even if there story seems fishy”.
The first empiric data towards which you point has that quality and I haven’t checked it for the other links. What Korzybski called consciousness of abstraction is important when making arguments like this.
I don’t think “people with mental illness are more likely to say in surveys that they are victim of crimes” should lead one to conclude “if someone with a mental illness tells me that they are a victim of a crime, I should believe them even if there story seems fishy”.
The first empiric data towards which you point has that quality and I haven’t checked it for the other links. What Korzybski called consciousness of abstraction is important when making arguments like this.