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I don't think there's any one big reason for decrease in crime. I think it's all of those factors in the article working up to a perfect storm. I do think youn
by dba7dba 11y ago
I don't think there's any one big reason for decrease in crime. I think it's all of those factors in the article working up to a perfect storm.
I do think young kids being inside home playing video games (hence less time out in the street, lowering chance of running into trouble) is another reason. Basically all those video games trapped potential criminals inside their home and they eventually 'matured' enough not to get into a life of crimes.
- darkmighty 11y agoIndeed 'one big reasons' seem very pathological for me in popular science and even some serious science. I believe we are attracted to a single fact explaining a lot: it gives some weird satisfaction, like seeing a puzzle come together; while this can work for creating a mathematical theory or explain some basic physical phenomena, it doesn't bode well when applied to complex systems or people. I get impression it happens all the time with cancer; I think the bee collapse saw some of this effect too. All this motivation for finding 'the explanation' does lead to discovering mechanisms though -- but I suppose we still need some more lucid 'integrators' to combine many effects into a strong enough causal system.
- decasteve 11y agoPlot crime rates and video game sales and there is a correlation between the decrease of crime and increase in games. (Though I am not implying a causal relationship in any way, just an observation)