@Guilherme988561@Mic_to_11@nostalgicskyy and the papers themselves sometimes warn against drawing broad conclusions.
So, you can't go "overrepresentation exists therefore gay people are more likely to be pedophiles" without proving the methodology supports that conclusion. That is the disputed part.
@Guilherme988561@Mic_to_11@nostalgicskyy Only if the studies actually justify making that inference. That's the entire point. Those studies are often criticized because many classify offenders by victim sex instead of adult orientation, offender samples are not representative of the general population,
@Guilherme988561@Mic_to_11@nostalgicskyy Literally not
"Group X is overrepresented in category Y" doesn't mean "Members of group X are likely to belong to category Y."
Men are overrepresented in violent crime statistics, but that doesn't mean most men are violent criminals.