I also don't really know anything about the whole lead/crime thing. I guess I should? I'm not like a biologist.
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It's more interesting (or at least more comprehsable) to me to ask how political institutions respond to crime, than where crime comes from..."sometimes people's brains are worse" is uh...possible enough.
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(The way people talk about "the lead-addled generation" makes me a little uncomfortable on uh...anti-ableism grounds more than anything else, I guess.)
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I really wish we had accurate statistics going back further. We don't know how weird the '60s crime spike really was, do we? There may have been a similar thing that happened in like 1630s Europe that was just lost to us?
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I mean to my knowledge we don't even have great crime statistics in 1930s America let alone 1630s Europe.
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Murder data are reasonably good apparently, those tend to get recorded consistently Be interesting to look at famine : later crime relationship
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I mean people say that but...how would we know?
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Fugg idk Has anyone done a critical take of Pinker?
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