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Based on everything we've learned recently about the government's own capabilities, I would think that null hypothesis is that being added to the list has no ef
by logicallee 13y ago
Based on everything we've learned recently about the government's own capabilities, I would think that null hypothesis is that being added to the list has no effect whatsoever. (Since the publication of the list is so much weaker than the government's internal capabilities, and that it is the latter that leads to arrest anyway, not some grocery clerk reporting in.)
The easiest way to see this would be to assume there's a fairly close race on average between #10 and #11 in terms of wanted-ness, and so if we knew what the shortlist was and compared the incarceration dates of the runners-up we could figure out whether there's any effect at all to the publication proper.
- RA_Fisher 13y agoI'd speculate the opposite way about the list. There have been a lot of crazy stories about grocery clerks reporting fugitives. The experiment you propose would be really cool to test a hypothesis with.