Every time I inform someone that the abortion-crime hypothesis went bust and point them toward the lead-crime hypothesis instead, it feels like saving a soul...
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On the other hand, the abortion-crime hypothesis is a bit eugenicsy.
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Funny I never even heard of the abortion-crime hypothesis. I only knew Levitt from the Police hiring paper that turned out to have errors as well
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the abortion-crime hypothesis was all the rage for pro-choice libertarians back in the dark days of high school when i was a libertarian. before that it was "aggressive people stopped shooting and robbing because they played video games instead" which sounded even dumber
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Also it had a whole prominent chapter devoted to it in Levitt's book "Freakonomics" which was a best seller.
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yeah thats how the libertarians found out about it
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Confirmation bias?
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