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Re:Bob Lee, Former CTO Square, Creator of CashApp, Stabbed t... by vorpalhex on Thursday April 06, 2023 @12:02PM (#35470329)
> the research done so far has not found any supporting evidence for this theory.

You are incorrect. Research is favorable with caveats:

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/002242781557657...

You may be conflating it with a VERY misreported meta analysis, the 2019 Daniel T O'Brien et al. which found BWT theory does not impact *mental health* of a neighborhood. He also normalized for SES which BWT is probably a direct predictor of (basically social funding).

> The mugger was not using a weapon.

https://www.statista.com/statistics/251914/number-of-robberi...

If you get mugged, that mugger almost certainly has a weapon. That you saw the exception does not alter the stats.

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