My point is that it's impossible to be objective with a wickedly complicated metric such as "crime rate". Are you familiar with p-hacking? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data_dredging
It is dogmatic to throw out all studies because they may have data dredging. It is prudent to carefully consider studies individually and look for any flaws in their methodology.
Furthermore, it's impossible to give proper weight to the impact of the actions of a few white collar criminals(think Ben Bernanke). e.g. How many died because of the 2008 crash?
Dope, yeah I got a good list going for books I need to read. Is there a book recommendations topic yet?
haha same. so much reading, so little time. was some interest in DPR Book Club
it's different in every area and sometimes those laws are stupid. So you're not really measuring crime rate, you're measuring *obedience rate*.
I completely agree, but the data sets for what we're talking about here depend on corrupt judicial systems reporting data accurately. Then you have to consider what's legal and illegal
