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Violent crime is decreasing, period. It is spurious (if not intentionally misleading) to suggest that this correlates in a meaningful way with changes in povert
by pekk 14y ago
Violent crime is decreasing, period. It is spurious (if not intentionally misleading) to suggest that this correlates in a meaningful way with changes in poverty.
- JoeAltmaier 14y agoYes, recently an article was posted here (WSJ) that correlated unleaded gasoline with violent crime. That's actually believable.
- morpher 14y agoIIRC, Freakanomics had a section correlating legalized abortion with a drop in crime ~18 years later. Also plausible. But, of course, not necessarily causal.