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""Does Abortion Prevent Crime?" Steve Sailer's 2nd response to Steven D. Levitt in 1999 Slate debate"

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Anonymous Anonymous said...

Steve, can you reformat this in plain text, please? It looks like crap.

4/27/14, 10:18 AM

Anonymous Anonymous said...

And what if the legalization of abortion gave them an excuse to be even less careful about avoiding pregnancy?


Here's an interesting wikipedia page relating to this, risk compenstation:

"Risk compensation is a theory which suggests that people typically adjust their behavior in response to the perceived level of risk, becoming more careful where they sense greater risk and less careful if they feel more protected. ...

...it has been observed that motorists drove faster when wearing seatbelts...

...There is also evidence that the risk compensation phenomenon could explain the failure of condom distribution programs to reverse HIV prevalence and that condoms may foster disinhibition, with people engaging in risky sex both with and without condoms. ...


The theory emerged from road safety research after it was observed that many interventions failed to achieve the expected level of benefits but has since found application in many other fields. ...

...The reduction of predicted benefit from regulations that intend to increase safety is sometimes referred to as the Peltzman effect..."

4/27/14, 1:54 PM

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