Blinks: Strippers dislike Inflation, Effect of Guns on Suicide Rates, and Gospel Centered Hip-Hop
- Do strippers dislike price inflation? Tyler Cowen analyzes an smbc comic.
- Tyler Cowen has a post on a new study on the relation between gun ownership and suicide rates.
Conclusion: “a 1% increase in the household gun ownership rate leads to a .5 to .9% increase in suicides”
"Is the study robust?: “one might imagine that they are correlated due say to a third factor such as social anomie. We have an interesting test of this in the paper. If suicides and gun ownership were being driven by a third factor we would expect gun ownership to be correlated with all suicides not just gun-suicide.”
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Do television and electronic games predict children’s psychological adjustment?Results: Watching TV for 3 h or more at 5 years
predicted a 0.13 point increase (95% CI 0.03 to 0.24)
in conduct problems by 7 years, compared with watching
for under an hour, but playing electronic games was not
associated with conduct problems. No associations were
found between either type of screen time and emotional
symptoms, hyperactivity/inattention, peer relationship
problems or prosocial behaviour. There was no evidence
of gender differences in the effect of screen time.
Conclusions: TV but not electronic games predicted a
small increase in conduct problems. Screen time did not
predict other aspects of psychosocial adjustment. Further
work is required to establish causal mechanisms.
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