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Also he's disputing a straw man. No one has claimed that all crime can be explained by a single variable. Only that a variable can have a big effect. Other "sim
by Houshalter 11y ago
Also he's disputing a straw man. No one has claimed that all crime can be explained by a single variable. Only that a variable can have a big effect. Other "simple explanations" for crime could be poverty, broken homes, education, all the traditional explanations. All those are simple explanations and single variables.
- omginternets 11y agoI understood his claim a bit differently, namely as "Lead is an epiphenomenon, and a single variable with a big effect is likely to be an epiphenomenon". To be sure, I think the logic goes like this: - Lead is positively correlated with crime - Reduction in lead-levels is associated with multiple factors that are in turn associated with gentrification - Thus, these gentrification factors are the true cause, and lead-levels just happen to correlate with them.