> With a billion variables to control for, What if I told you that to imprison citizens for small crimes causes them to commit a more serious crime in the futu

> With a billion variables to control for, What if I told you that to imprison citizens for small crimes causes them to commit a more serious crime in the future? Does that changes your conclusion? Your over-simplification does not make sense. And assuming that the people that did the study are just blatantly incompetent without any information is very presumptuous.