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Yes obviously prohibition and organized crime are minor factors in homicide rates very convenient time period chosen. In larger urban areas using more lead pipe
by qaq 11y ago
Yes obviously prohibition and organized crime are minor factors in homicide rates very convenient
time period chosen. In larger urban areas using more lead pipes is obviously a dominating factor and obviously not being a major black markets in prohibition era and thus center for organized crime.
- dredmorbius 11y agoYou know, if you'd conceed points and then raise other considerations your arguments might be taken as in good faith. As it is, I find it hard to extend that courtesy. You might want to consider this in future. As the points you raise have merits, but not in the context and tone in which your make them.
- qaq 11y agoYou are right but having stats background it get's tiresome looking at how people are abusing the craft. There is obviously little harm from a "study" like this, but this sad state of things affects much more critical areas like medical field. You see so much of misuse and misapplication makes you angry after a while.
- Hondor 11y agoYou're assuming your points were valid. Since you didn't really argue them, they might not be. In that case, you aren't justified in getting angry at this article any more than you are in getting angry at every paper using stats ever published. Perhaps this is one of the rare good ones.
- qaq 11y agoI stated 2 things (not very elaborately): 1) There are too many factors that affect crime rates that are not accounted for by this study. 2) Correlation does not prove causation
- lostlogin 11y agoThe idea that lead causes violent behaviour doesn't mean other causes don't exist.
- qaq 11y agoIf you can't isolate other factors the stats treatment becomes meaningless. Since there is concentration of crime in prohibition era in major urban areas you can by the same token observe a very strong correlation between number of restrooms in the city and a homicide rate or any other meaningless factor related to population size.
- lostlogin 11y agoWasnt prohibition everywhere in the States, while lead pipes weren't? Can you show a study based on 100 year old data that isn't flawed? I don't get what you think they should have done?