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Re:The biggest root cause of crime is fatherlessness by misja111 on Thursday December 14, 2023 @02:58AM (#38638917)
Thank you, I should have read the white paper better, you are right, the correlation with single parent households is actually one of the weakest.

By the way, do I read correctly from the regression analysis stats, that "single young men age 15-29" is -negatively- correlated with all categories of crime?

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Re:The biggest root cause of crime is fatherlessness by tech_ken on Monday December 18, 2023 @08:31PM (#38690700)
Yes, that’s correct. Mixed significance pattern and wide-ish SEs so a little challenging to make claims across crime types IMO.

This demo tends to commit the most recorded crimes, which means that they’re getting arrested or murdered. Presumably in an area where lots of crimes are occurring the corresponding increase in arrests and murders leads to lower population counts on the US Census (which I believe was their source of truth on demo stuff).

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