Re: The Tipping Point + Freakonomics re: crime
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The biggest factor for the crime rate tends to be the size of the male population aged 19-25.
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That seems to me to be a textbook example of confounding factors. Its not like being 22 pushes one towards crime.
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No, it's just that most crime is committed by this group and that if there's more of them, more crime.
Not rocket science really.
Also I'm pretty sure poverty is a huge indicator as well. No idea how that factors into all of them. It's been a long time since college.
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