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My personal experience with martial arts is that with regular training you feel slightly more grounded in a situation that can escalate to violence. That means you are more likely to have a calm and steady manner when things get tense, improving your chances of resolving things by words only. There is always the chance that when stressed or anxious, people can misread you as aggressive.
EDIT: Not saying it could have made a difference to that girl in Cornwall.