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39 Post author: PhilGoetz 24 March 2011 09:53PM

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Comment author: ewbrownv 25 March 2011 04:26:49PM 3 points [-]

Or that the study authors are wrong about what punishments are optimal for deterrence. The social sciences are a long, long way from being able to make definitively accurate statments about that kind of thing.