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Or, less snarkily, some people believe that homeless people are rational actors like the rest of us, and therefore gravitate towards the regions with the highes
by JBReefer 11y ago
Or, less snarkily, some people believe that homeless people are rational actors like the rest of us, and therefore gravitate towards the regions with the highest cash benefits/most generous housing programs/etc.
Therefore, it would behoove the homeless to protect those benefits by lying about their point of origination to garner more sympathy from those who pay for their benefits.
- anigbrowl 11y agoAssuming that people are lying on surveys is quite common, but unless there's systematic organized bias sampling theory suggests an approximately equal number of people will lie in the opposite direction and that both 'signals' will fall into the noise floor.
- JBReefer 11y agoHowever, if there's an incentive to lie, the lies will trend towards the incented direction