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 Originally Posted by BananaStand
If you're telling me that you spend significant time in Economics classrooms and you're also telling me that you don't think poverty and crime are linked, then I'm just gonna walk away shaking my head man. Does not compute.
They are associated for sure. I had to adjust for that association in an econometric analysis I did.
I'm discussing in terms of causality instead. It is true that in the states where you find poverty you find crime, though that doesn't mean the poverty is causing the crime.
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