The story of lead and crime, told in tweets
Posted on:: February 11th, 2018
Patrick Sharkey [twitter: patrick_sharkey] uses a Twitter thread to evaluate the evidence about a possible relationship between exposure to lead and crime. The thread is a bit hard to get unspooled correctly, but it’s worth it as an example of:
1. Thinking carefully about complex evidence and data.
2. How Twitter affects the reasoning and its expression.
3. The complexity of data, which will only get worse (= better) as machine learning can scale up their size and complexity.
Note: I lack the skills and knowledge to evaluate Patrick’s reasoning. And, hat tip to David Lazer for the retweet of the thread.
