on 10/28/05 9:08 AM, markmeredith2002 at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > --- In [email protected], "sparaig" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>> The raw data in the DC study did not show any statistical validity, >> >> Not so. Even the raw numbers showed a positive effect, overall. >> >> so >>> Hagelin adjusted the data by a "heat factor" arguing that the >> weather >>> was hotter than avg and thus the crime rate should have been higher >>> than avg. >> >> That's not what he did. > > Yes it is. From the study: "Average weekly temperature was > significantly correlated with homicides, rapes and assaults (HRA > crimes), as has also been found in previous research; therefore > temperature was used as a control variable in the main analysis of HRA > crimes."
I was on that course, and I'd say the heat would have discouraged crime rather than increased it. It was too damn HOT to commit a crime, although I heard that theft of ice and cold beer went up, as well as swimming pool break-ins. ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> Get fast access to your favorite Yahoo! Groups. Make Yahoo! your home page http://us.click.yahoo.com/dpRU5A/wUILAA/yQLSAA/JjtolB/TM --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
