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So many factors that could have contributed to the crime drop. Hate to drive by this interesting thread, but wasn't this same crime drop attributed to the lega

• gruseom 14y ago
  (Duplicated from a comment I made to the original posting of this article at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5002806... https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5002806...) Via http://election.princeton.edu/2012/12/22/scientific-american http://election.princeton.edu/2012/12/22/scientific-american, which cited Reyes' work on the lead theory, here's a link to a striking critique of the abortion theory: http://www.economist.com/node/5246700?story_id=5246700 http://www.economist.com/node/5246700?story_id=5246700 Someone inspected Donohue and Levitt's code and found a bug that meant they hadn't controlled for what they claimed they had. "Fixing that error reduces the effect of abortion on arrests by about half, using the original data, and two-thirds using updated numbers."