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From: debray@sbcs.UUCP (Saumya Debray)
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Subject: Re: Jungle boxes and crime
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Date: Tue, 19-Feb-85 20:37:56 EST
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Posted: Tue Feb 19 20:37:56 1985
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> I propose legislation that will ban Third world briefcases, better know as
> Ghetto Blasters. Surveys in the Washinton DC and upper NYC areas by
> Klein and Friedkin of Harvard have shown that crime in these areas has 
> INCREASES by the CUBE of the number of portable stereos.
[ ... ]
>   Therefore we can see that the radios are a contributing factor to crime
> in the inner city.

Ah yes, that reminds me of the well-known study on the effects of water on
drunkenness.  You see, there were these scientists who mixed whisky with
water and fed it to some test subjects, and the subjects got drunk.  Then
they mixed rum with water and fed it to some other test subjects, and they
got drunk too.  The scientists smelled they were onto something big, but
just to confirm their results before rushing off to publish them, they
tried mixing vodka with water and trying this out on a third group of test
subjects ... and sure enough, these got drunk too!  Well, since water was
obviously the only thing the tests had in common, the conclusion to be
drawn from this was pretty obvious -- wasn't it?
-- 
Saumya Debray
SUNY at Stony Brook

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