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by hickvision 1429 days ago
>Anecdote is not a study

And what I described is the outline of a study, not an anecdote. Small scale, limited sample size, and less well controlled than an academic study, but it's still data.

Also, as another poster already mentioned, it isn't as if there is any shortage of large scale, academic studies available showing exactly the same results, if those are more your cup of tea.
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feet 1429 days ago
>Further examination revealed that support for BWT-related hypotheses has been overstated owing to data censoring and the failure to consistently include critical covariates, like socioeconomic status and collective efficacy

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S02779...

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ChrisLomont 1429 days ago
That paper is not about the BWT, but about BWT applied to health outcomes. And the next sentence you didn't quote states that even in that case BWT has truth to it.

Such dishonesty over and over...

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dang 1429 days ago
Please don't cross into flamewar or personal swipes, regardless of how you feel about someone else's comments.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

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feet 1429 days ago
No, it actually does not. Emphasis mine

>Even where there is evidence that BWT impacts outcomes, it is driven by studies that measured disorder as the perceptions of the focal individual, potentially conflating pessimism about the neighborhood with mental health.

This states that the perception of disorder does not necessarily match up with reality and that the conclusion of said study is flawed

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