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Tourists don't generally stay in sleepy bedroom communities, they go to where the action is, and probably, those areas have higher violence than the former?
by foolinaround 5y ago
Tourists don't generally stay in sleepy bedroom communities, they go to where the action is, and probably, those areas have higher violence than the former?
- villasv 5y ago> led to more violence in neighborhoods in *later years*
- lmeyerov 5y agosame thing. there can be a latent factor, like it takes awhile for criminals to move from one area to another, so airbnb people aren't the causes but leading indicators for something underneath. this is classic correlation vs causation. it's not hard to come up with alternative latent factor causations like this, which would lead to radically different conclusions than the paper, so I have to wonder if some sort of bias is leaking in -- I have no horse in this race either way, just skimming it seems like sloppy politicized inferences, and disappointed that reviewers didn't force that to be addressed. e.g., the authors came in with opening hypotheses / observations here, and instead of seeking to disprove them (good science), sought to support them w/ p-hacking (bad science). the correlations are interesting, so the science would be to try to break them somehow to narrow down the conclusions, and instead they promote 1 arbitrary interpretation and leave the analysis to future work