This is particularly due to the fact that her theories, as stated by historians such as Fudge, make large assumptions and also tries to deny the fact that 20% of men accused were accused of being a witch during the period. Historians maintain different perspectives for different reasons and sometimes because of different historical evidence they have found. Anne Barstow may have found statistics on the high percentage of women executed to support her thesis that misogyny was the root cause of witch hunts. However, this statistic needs to be checked to ensure that it does not contain any bias. Furthermore, compared to other historians such as G. Scarre, J. Callow, and B. Levack, Barstow provides only a few countries which may indicate that he removed some countries that did not agree with his theory or did not have enough impact. This undermines his argument since this data manipulation can become apparent through comparison with other data, and therefore makes his argument unreliable. The fact that Anne Barstow is a feminist historian may also have influenced her argument as she would have been convinced that the witch hunts in early modern Europe gave way to the possibility that her argument was biased. Thus Barstow's argument requires that a historian be careful in agreeing with or using his theories as support, and so he is hardly