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To: MrB
Did Freakonomics refer directly to the black population and abortion correlating with lower crime rates?

Not directly. Freakanomics noted that the women most likely to have an abortion are unmarried, poor and uneducated. Mothers with that background are also the most likely to have children who later end up as criminals. The racial component is correlation, not causation- a high percentage of black mothers fall into the unmarried, poor and uneducated category. If you control for these factors, you find that middle-class, educated, married black women don't have many more abortions, per capita, then their non-black counterparts.

71 posted on 01/15/2009 1:13:47 PM PST by Citizen Blade ("A Conservative Government is an organized hypocrisy" -Benjamin Disraeli)
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To: Citizen Blade

Entirely to be expected, but not PC to openly state, eh?


72 posted on 01/15/2009 1:22:42 PM PST by MrB (The 0bamanation: Marxism, Infanticide, Appeasement, Depression, Thuggery, and Censorship)
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