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>> … on average, when Craigslist’s opened erotic services in a city, the female homicide rate went down 17 percent.
> 17 percent. That’s not the homicide rate for female sex workers. That’s the homicide rate for all women.
Whoa. https://medium.com/assembly-four/my-six-week-rollercoaster-ride-172eb58ba80e
@cwebber There is the phenomenon of spurious correlations, which does not imply causation. This is called post hoc fallacy: A occurred, then B occurred...therefore, A caused B. Here are some graphs that may lead to incorrect hypotheses: https://lazy8.social/media/yDKXuaGPUiQLJTfKrII https://lazy8.social/media/xQx-5FcWVDsj-usuzOE