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Maybe part of it is fear of an ER bill you can’t afford or don’t have insurance to cover?
by avidphantasm 4y ago
Maybe part of it is fear of an ER bill you can’t afford or don’t have insurance to cover?
- citrin_ru 4y agoPersonal anekdata: I've seen much more unsupervised children in low-income neighborhoods than in upper-middle class ones.
- threads2 4y agojust say anecdote
- permo-w 4y agoit's not an anecdote. an anecdote is a single story. this is his/her collection of anecdotal evidence/data. I don't see why they've spelt it with a k though
- citrin_ru 4y agoIt's just a spelling mistake, I've meant https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/anecdata https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/anecdata
- AlgorithmicTime 4y ago
- permo-w 4y agoperhaps in the US, but wouldn't this equally have been the case historically? the overall effect is almost certainly the result of the proprietors of playgrounds shielding themselves from lawsuits. I'd be willing to bet that around the time it started to change there was a big lawsuit, or a string of them that put the fear of god/bankruptcy into people running these things for the joy of others