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Saturday, June 18, 2022 8:57:57 PM

  1. "Information"

Sunday, June 19, 2022 5:50:08 PM

  1. "Legalized abortion led to less unwantedness; unwantedness leads to high crime; legalized abortion, therefore, led to less crime."

Sunday, June 19, 2022 6:16:52 PM

  1. "“is that the risks that scare people and the risks that kill people are very different.”"

Wednesday, June 15, 2022 7:40:31 PM

  1. "It wasn’t gun control or a strong economy or new police strategies that finally blunted the American crime wave. It was, among other factors, the reality that the pool of potential criminals had dramatically shrunk."

Wednesday, June 15, 2022 7:48:01 PM

  1. "truism at work. (Disregard for a moment the contrary"

Wednesday, June 15, 2022 7:49:36 PM

  1. "A correlation simply means that a relationship exists between two factors—let’s call them X and Y—but it tells you nothing about the direction of that relationship. It’s possible that X causes Y; it’s also possible that Y causes X; and it may be that X and Y are both being caused by some other factor, Z."

Wednesday, June 15, 2022 7:58:45 PM

  1. "Knowing what to measure and how to measure it makes a complicated world much less so."

Wednesday, June 15, 2022 8:19:05 PM

  1. "W. C. Fields once said: a thing worth having is a thing worth cheating"

Wednesday, June 15, 2022 8:19:09 PM

  1. "W. C. Fields once said: a thing worth having is a thing worth cheating for."

Wednesday, June 15, 2022 8:55:27 PM

  1. "interesting to note that by the two wrestlers’"