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  • Casual EddyCasual Eddy The Astral PlaneRegistered User regular
    So Nevin dove in further, digging up detailed data on lead emissions and crime rates to see if the similarity of the curves was as good as it seemed. It turned out to be even better: In a 2000 paper (PDF) he concluded that if you add a lag time of 23 years, lead emissions from automobiles explain 90 percent of the variation in violent crime in America. Toddlers who ingested high levels of lead in the '40s and '50s really were more likely to become violent criminals in the '60s, '70s, and '80s.

    http://www.ricknevin.com/uploads/Nevin_2000_Env_Res_Author_Manuscript.pdf

  • TTODewbackTTODewback Puts the drawl in ya'll I think I'm in HellRegistered User regular
    Bless your heart.
  • matt has a problemmatt has a problem Points to 'off' Points to 'on'Registered User regular
    Also Borderlands 2 and Bioshock Infinite for $38 on Gamefly now, hooray sales.

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  • ShivahnShivahn Unaware of her barrel shifter privilege Western coastal temptressRegistered User, Moderator mod
    Guess who neglected to eat breakfast!

    (it is not that hard to guess)

    So really the question is what to eat for lunch. Needs to be very filling. Hmm.

  • Dread Pirate ArbuthnotDread Pirate Arbuthnot OMG WRIGGLY T O X O P L A S M O S I SRegistered User regular
    I miss Neville and Sasha : (

  • Casual EddyCasual Eddy The Astral PlaneRegistered User regular
    although studies show 'correlation and causation' is a very easy and satisfying thing to say

  • emnmnmeemnmnme Registered User regular
  • CasualCasual Wiggle Wiggle Wiggle Flap Flap Flap Registered User regular
    Shivahn wrote: »
    Guess who neglected to eat breakfast!

    (it is not that hard to guess)

    So really the question is what to eat for lunch. Needs to be very filling. Hmm.

    GUESS WHO IS GETTING IMPATIENT FOR HIS TAKEAWAY

  • CindersCinders Whose sails were black when it was windy Registered User regular
    I didn't eat breakfast.

    I almost never eat breakfast though, so I don't think I count.

  • TTODewbackTTODewback Puts the drawl in ya'll I think I'm in HellRegistered User regular
    Currently Playing: "Get Your Shine On" by Florida Georgia Line
    How appropriate.

    Bless your heart.
  • override367override367 ALL minions Registered User regular
    im 10 cents short of buying a soda

  • ThomamelasThomamelas Only one man can kill this many Russians. Bring his guitar to me! Registered User regular
    the mother jones article which was the earlier proponents of this theory stated that the study controlled for (or at least attempted to) a lot of other things

    it didn't just put the two graphs next to each other

    So does every study linking it to changes in policing techniques, abortion, anti-poverty programs and the 150 other causes who have all claimed to answer why the violent crime rate has dropped. I will also point out the original study did not claim causation but merely correlation. There are other studies that tracked exposure to lead levels and incidence of arrest for violent behavior and it found kids with lead exposure had had higher chance for violence. But they found the figures to be about 3% more likely than the general population. Which may account for some of the drop but a fairly small amount of it.

  • Sir LandsharkSir Landshark resting shark face Registered User regular
    im sure we have plenty of lead paint on our walls

    i assume it's not a problem as long as our kids dont peel it off and eat it but

    it will be one less thing in the back of my head when we move

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  • ShivahnShivahn Unaware of her barrel shifter privilege Western coastal temptressRegistered User, Moderator mod
    Casual wrote: »
    Shivahn wrote: »
    Guess who neglected to eat breakfast!

    (it is not that hard to guess)

    So really the question is what to eat for lunch. Needs to be very filling. Hmm.

    GUESS WHO IS GETTING IMPATIENT FOR HIS TAKEAWAY

    C...Casual?

  • PodlyPodly you unzipped me! it's all coming back! i don't like it!Registered User regular
    still funny every time i see it

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  • 21stCentury21stCentury Call me Pixel, or Pix for short! [They/Them]Registered User regular
    im 10 cents short of buying a soda

    Good, soda is bad for you.

  • Irond WillIrond Will WARNING: NO HURTFUL COMMENTS, PLEASE!!!!! Cambridge. MAModerator Mod Emeritus
    Couscous wrote: »
    http://kotaku.com/investigation-a-video-game-studio-from-hell-511872642
    This uncomfortable behavior toward females doesn't seem to be limited to the workplace: A Skype log obtained by Kotaku shows Stieglitz talking about one of the female characters in Dungeon Defenders II in terms that made at least a few employees uncomfortable. "Needs to be more like [a] Brazilian beach super model if you know what I mean," he writes. ""It'd also be nice if the ass was attractive."

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    Holy shit, that is creepy.

    i don't really see this as particularly objectionable

    so the character design is "make a cartoonishly sexy character model after a brazilian supermodel" and the dev/ producer/ manager is commenting on whether he thinks the 3d model fulfills the design.

    is the problem that this kind of character model was conceived of at all?

    i think i don't get it.

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  • PantsBPantsB Fake Thomas Jefferson Registered User regular
    Last week or so there was a survey about women being primary breadwinners. My wife earns more than me but I got my biggest raise evah this fall and the margin was pretty narrow.

    Then without anyone telling her, she got a 12% raise yesterday

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    QEDMF xbl: PantsB G+
  • AngelHedgieAngelHedgie Registered User regular
    zagdrob wrote: »
    evilbob wrote: »
    @casual eddy the rate to of violent crime started taking a much sharper fall after the banning of leaded fuel. Amazing what not giving everyone lead poisoning can do!

    Yeah, but the banning of leaded fuel goes arm in arm with all kinds of other things...environmental, social, etc.

    Not saying it's not a factor or not the factor, just the usual 'correlation / causation' warning.

    The graphs line up almost perfectly.

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  • CasualCasual Wiggle Wiggle Wiggle Flap Flap Flap Registered User regular
    Shivahn wrote: »
    Casual wrote: »
    Shivahn wrote: »
    Guess who neglected to eat breakfast!

    (it is not that hard to guess)


    So really the question is what to eat for lunch. Needs to be very filling. Hmm.

    GUESS WHO IS GETTING IMPATIENT FOR HIS TAKEAWAY

    C...Casual?

    h94925D85

  • TTODewbackTTODewback Puts the drawl in ya'll I think I'm in HellRegistered User regular
    Irond Will wrote: »
    Couscous wrote: »
    http://kotaku.com/investigation-a-video-game-studio-from-hell-511872642
    This uncomfortable behavior toward females doesn't seem to be limited to the workplace: A Skype log obtained by Kotaku shows Stieglitz talking about one of the female characters in Dungeon Defenders II in terms that made at least a few employees uncomfortable. "Needs to be more like [a] Brazilian beach super model if you know what I mean," he writes. ""It'd also be nice if the ass was attractive."

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    Holy shit, that is creepy.

    i don't really see this as particularly objectionable

    so the character design is "make a cartoonishly sexy character model after a brazilian supermodel" and the dev/ producer/ manager is commenting on whether he thinks the 3d model fulfills the design.

    is the problem that this kind of character model was conceived of at all?

    i think i don't get it.

    You missed the line where he said he wanted the tits to look like inflated balloons defying gravity and constantly giving the heroine black eyes.
    Oh wait he didn't say that?
    He should have.

    Bless your heart.
  • Sir LandsharkSir Landshark resting shark face Registered User regular
    PantsB wrote: »
    Last week or so there was a survey about women being primary breadwinners. My wife earns more than me but I got my biggest raise evah this fall and the margin was pretty narrow.

    Then without anyone telling her, she got a 12% raise yesterday

    I'm pretty sure this only happens to CEOs...

    #occupypantsb'swife

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  • emnmnmeemnmnme Registered User regular
    im 10 cents short of buying a soda

    Good, soda is bad for you.

    Are you sure?

  • override367override367 ALL minions Registered User regular
    edited June 2013
    im 10 cents short of buying a soda

    Good, soda is bad for you.

    diet soda isn't as bad for you as is generally believed on the internet

    it helps me with carb cravings, which I understand is atypical, but it is only temporary

    override367 on
  • Irond WillIrond Will WARNING: NO HURTFUL COMMENTS, PLEASE!!!!! Cambridge. MAModerator Mod Emeritus
    zagdrob wrote: »
    evilbob wrote: »
    @casual eddy the rate to of violent crime started taking a much sharper fall after the banning of leaded fuel. Amazing what not giving everyone lead poisoning can do!

    Yeah, but the banning of leaded fuel goes arm in arm with all kinds of other things...environmental, social, etc.

    Not saying it's not a factor or not the factor, just the usual 'correlation / causation' warning.

    The graphs line up almost perfectly.

    which would suggest correlation

    but not causation

    "causation" doesn't mean "better correlation"

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  • AngelHedgieAngelHedgie Registered User regular
    Irond Will wrote: »
    Couscous wrote: »
    http://kotaku.com/investigation-a-video-game-studio-from-hell-511872642
    This uncomfortable behavior toward females doesn't seem to be limited to the workplace: A Skype log obtained by Kotaku shows Stieglitz talking about one of the female characters in Dungeon Defenders II in terms that made at least a few employees uncomfortable. "Needs to be more like [a] Brazilian beach super model if you know what I mean," he writes. ""It'd also be nice if the ass was attractive."

    ku-xlarge.png
    Holy shit, that is creepy.

    i don't really see this as particularly objectionable

    so the character design is "make a cartoonishly sexy character model after a brazilian supermodel" and the dev/ producer/ manager is commenting on whether he thinks the 3d model fulfills the design.

    is the problem that this kind of character model was conceived of at all?

    i think i don't get it.

    Read the last line.

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  • PodlyPodly you unzipped me! it's all coming back! i don't like it!Registered User regular
  • ThomamelasThomamelas Only one man can kill this many Russians. Bring his guitar to me! Registered User regular
    although studies show 'correlation and causation' is a very easy and satisfying thing to say

    And assuming you found a magical answer to complex problems is a very easy and satisfying thing to say.

  • kaleeditykaleedity Sometimes science is more art than science Registered User regular
    PantsB wrote: »
    Last week or so there was a survey about women being primary breadwinners. My wife earns more than me but I got my biggest raise evah this fall and the margin was pretty narrow.

    Then without anyone telling her, she got a 12% raise yesterday

    matriarchy tryin' to keep the man down

  • CindersCinders Whose sails were black when it was windy Registered User regular
    Moving my voice into falsetto is painful.

  • ButtlordButtlord Fornicus Lord of Bondage and PainRegistered User regular
    TTODewback wrote: »

    what are you doing

    what is this

  • kaleeditykaleedity Sometimes science is more art than science Registered User regular
    I would be surprised if there was one variable responsible for 10% of the rate of change of crime throughout the US

  • zagdrobzagdrob Registered User regular
    Jacobkosh wrote: »
    Thomamelas wrote: »
    evilbob wrote: »
    @casual eddy the rate to of violent crime started taking a much sharper fall after the banning of leaded fuel. Amazing what not giving everyone lead poisoning can do!

    Correlation and causation.

    lead concentrations and violent crime rates correlate down to individual city blocks

    Bet they correlate pretty well with poverty / income too.

    Not saying that lead isn't a significant (or THE significant) variable.

    I'd just be more likely to say that lead, along with a hundred other factors like education level, teen pregnancy, etc are probably going to be directly related to poverty and income levels.

    And hell, poverty may be the effect not the cause of lead poisoning. Not going to discount that.

  • redxredx I(x)=2(x)+1 whole numbersRegistered User regular
    Podly wrote: »
    still funny every time i see it

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    That's kinda fantastic.

    They moistly come out at night, moistly.
  • y2jake215y2jake215 certified Flat Birther theorist the Last Good Boy onlineRegistered User regular
    Podly wrote: »
    still funny every time i see it

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    But look how many more leather jackets the Swedish house mafia have

    Do you really want to listen to a guy with that many fewer jackets

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    maybe i'm streaming terrible dj right now if i am its here
  • Sir LandsharkSir Landshark resting shark face Registered User regular
    sometimes i wonder if the internet has been harmful to discourse in certain ways

    like, for any given position, it is suuuuuuper easy to find that perfect strawman that may or may not actually be representative

    and then the outrage machine gets going

    etc etc

    it is nice that i can find a ton of information with a few Google searches though

    so let's call it a wash

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  • Irond WillIrond Will WARNING: NO HURTFUL COMMENTS, PLEASE!!!!! Cambridge. MAModerator Mod Emeritus
    Irond Will wrote: »
    Couscous wrote: »
    http://kotaku.com/investigation-a-video-game-studio-from-hell-511872642
    This uncomfortable behavior toward females doesn't seem to be limited to the workplace: A Skype log obtained by Kotaku shows Stieglitz talking about one of the female characters in Dungeon Defenders II in terms that made at least a few employees uncomfortable. "Needs to be more like [a] Brazilian beach super model if you know what I mean," he writes. ""It'd also be nice if the ass was attractive."

    ku-xlarge.png
    Holy shit, that is creepy.

    i don't really see this as particularly objectionable

    so the character design is "make a cartoonishly sexy character model after a brazilian supermodel" and the dev/ producer/ manager is commenting on whether he thinks the 3d model fulfills the design.

    is the problem that this kind of character model was conceived of at all?

    i think i don't get it.

    Read the last line.

    oh yeah i don't think i understood what he was getting at there

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  • emnmnmeemnmnme Registered User regular
    Cinders wrote: »
    Moving my voice into falsetto is painful.

    :whistle:

  • descdesc Goretexing to death Registered User regular
    I heard we were talking about Jeff Mills (pbuh)

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