Yvain 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: Yvain 20 January 2013 03:48:46AM 14 points [-]

Having done that, get another load of people to bang on every door in the 50 neighbourhoods in the treatment arm, and offer them money to replace their windows and their soil. (I don't know whether you can get away with not replacing windows & soil for the residents who don't have kids in the study. If you could skip them you'd save a lot of money.) Then do the cleanup jobs.

A study sort of like this was done in Rochester, and they found that nothing they did changed blood lead levels very much and so they didn't learn anything from it. I guess they could go further with actually replacing people's houses.

Comment author: Kawoomba 20 January 2013 07:29:59AM 7 points [-]

The hidden agenda of Extreme House Makeover.