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Re:In effect, Seattle is decriminalizing the use of hard drugs by rtkwe on Friday August 23, 2019 @07:49PM (#20783988)
I'm not terribly surprised macro economic number don't show a strong correlation to crime. We're already talking about a group on the margins generally when we're looking at small property crimes and top line numbers like unemployment don't capture people who aren't even looking for work anymore (eg drug addicts).
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Re:In effect, Seattle is decriminalizing the use of hard drugs by Gibbon1 on Friday August 23, 2019 @08:34PM (#20784266)
Yeah Economics has a huge problem with the Fruit Basket Fallacy.
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Re:In effect, Seattle is decriminalizing the use of hard drugs by rtkwe on Saturday August 24, 2019 @09:20PM (#20790755)
Going to need a definition on that, the first result on google for 'fruit basket fallacy' is literally this comment.
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Re:In effect, Seattle is decriminalizing the use of hard drugs by Gibbon1 on Sunday August 25, 2019 @08:34PM (#20796642)
I made it up. Economist have a big problem with running statistical analysis on unsorted population data. Hence trying to run regressions on fruit baskets.
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