Actually I hate the term "debunking," and hate myself for using it. Let's go with "skepticism."
This graph showed up 4 times in my feed today. Worth revisiting @slatestarcodex's 'debunking,' esp. section IV http://slatestarcodex.com/2016/03/07/reverse-voxsplaining-prison-and-mental-illness/ …pic.twitter.com/2fDKhZ8QFM
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watch scott alexander simply DESTROY etc
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interesting! This addressed violent crime, but what about property crime? Sum looks correlated superficially
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I despair of understanding anything in these statistical domains =/
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Also, dk blue curve shows TOTAL prison pop, not mentally ill in prison, as legend claims. (Shld be ~130/100k)
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Main takeaway from
@slatestarcodex article: these curves show 2 different social phenomena.pic.twitter.com/h95NM16I1G
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duly subtweeted
Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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He made a good argument for why Vox was wrong, but Vox picked both the wrong hypothesis and the wrong graph.
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