> "Wife-hitting" is considered an
> unofficial national sport. (If you were to believe what these people write,
> you would think that domestic violence would be a very widespread and common
> problem in Finnish society. Actual statistics be damned.)

Actually, if it is indeed considered normal to physically hit your wife, 
then it's very likely that it will go unreported and that statistics 
will underestimate the actual numbers.

For example, my Canadian province has a per capita rate of violence 
against women that's 10 times higher than the southern states of the 
USA.  Does this mean that Canadians beat women 10 x more? or that 
Canadian women are more likely to call the police when their husband 
gets violent?

On top of it, the actual statistic is different.  The very definition of 
what constitutes violence will be different because "come on... you 
can't put that in there! everyone does it!"
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