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I may have missed something but it looks like Europe is not taken into consideration in these studies. For example in France lead in gasoline was not banned unt
by tarsinge 8y ago
I may have missed something but it looks like Europe is not taken into consideration in these studies. For example in France lead in gasoline was not banned until the 90’s, and the violent crime statistics doesn’t look very correlated.
- scotty79 8y agoCrime lags around 20 years behind lead levels. Young people burning cars in Paris suburbs around 2010 may not be technically violent crime but it's pretty weird and special. And also in decline: https://www.google.pl/amp/s/www.thelocal.fr/20180102/is-the-famous-french-tradition-of-torching-cars-dying-out/amp https://www.google.pl/amp/s/www.thelocal.fr/20180102/is-the-...
- chrisbrandow 8y agoI don’t know about this particular study, but much of the strongest evidence for the lead hypothesis comes from comparing when different countries phased in/out lead and how their crime rates were affected.