[StAntKnee]

Read FREAKONOMICS.

Be prepared to be unmystified.

[riverdawg]

If you are referring to the hypothesis that the rise in legal abortions among poor women in the 1970’s and 1980’s reduced the potentially crime-prone population of the last decade or so, this has been convincingly refuted - so much so that Steve Levitt has suffered considerable professional damage because of the mistakes uncovered in his research on this.