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What's the big change that happened in the 60s and started this trend?
by gordian-mind 5y ago
What's the big change that happened in the 60s and started this trend?
- ch4s3 5y agoA lot of baby-boomers started reaching the prime age for committing crime all at once.
- discardedrefuse 5y agoAccording to the article: Leaded gasoline consumption rose rapidly in the early 1960s and peaked in the 1970s. As a result, Reuben and his colleagues found that essentially everyone born during those two decades are all but guaranteed to have been exposed to pernicious levels of lead from car exhaust.
- gordian-mind 5y agoSo lowering the general IQ in a society by a few points means an explosion in crime?
- mark-r 5y agoI don't believe it is the decrease in IQ that causes the crime, rather that both effects are correlated because they have the same root cause.
- DFHippie 5y agoIs this a rhetorical question? Leaded gasoline.
- hash03x 5y ago