drnickbone comments on Long-chain correlation: lead paint and crime - Less Wrong

13 Post author: ChrisHibbert 19 January 2013 07:47PM

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Comment author: drnickbone 19 January 2013 10:09:43PM 5 points [-]

Your first MotherJones link seems a bit inaccurate... Try this one

I was about to post on this subject myself to see if there were any LessWrong opinions. It's certainly more than just one US-wide correlation; similar correlations appear at the level of individual states and cities, and internationally too. Plus there are longitudinal studies (following cohorts of children with different measured lead exposures through time, and monitoring levels of school delinquency then criminality).

Comment author: Cyan 20 January 2013 03:02:11AM 2 points [-]

Oh goddamit... thanks for catching the bad link. Fixed.