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From: shor@sphinx.UChicago.UUCP (Melinda Shore)
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Subject: Re: Jungle boxes and crime
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Date: Fri, 22-Feb-85 13:04:51 EST
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> From: hkr4627@acf4.UUCP (Hedley K. J. Rainnie)
> 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. 

???!?!!?

Didn't we all learn in Stats 101 that correlation doesn't necessarily
imply causality?  Blasters may be a nuisance (no argument there ... ), but
I think you'd be hard pressed to demonstrate convincingly that they cause
crime, or that banning them would reduce the crime rate in urban areas.

-- 
Melinda Shore, Microcomputer Laboratory
University of Chicago Computation Center
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