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NancyLebovitz comments on What false beliefs have you held and why were you wrong? - Less Wrong Discussion

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Comment author: NancyLebovitz 17 October 2014 09:56:43PM 3 points [-]

I've heard a theory that violence in the US is correlated being Southern, not with race. Anyone know whether there's anything to this?

Comment author: RomeoStevens 24 October 2014 02:02:18AM 2 points [-]

violence is correlated with temperature.

Comment author: JoshuaZ 21 November 2014 04:20:33PM *  2 points [-]

Relevant article. Less technical summary by the authors of that paper here. There is some controversy about what the underlying causal mechanism is. See this article.