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The sample size overall is ~1500, but how many of those actually committed violent crimes in each group? I'd bet it's extremely low, which calls into question the statistical power of this study.


How about reading it using the link I provided, and considering it in the light of other studies cites in the original article and in the references section of this paper? I'm not claiming it to be the be-all and end-all of lead-specific social cost studies, but while we we discuss the reliability of the statistical conclusions large numbers of people are suffering the shitty first- and second-order effects of lead poisoning and society as a whole remains worse off because of a relatively fixable problem.




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