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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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