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by ageek123 1176 days ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Broken_windows_theory
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bagacrap 1175 days ago
Criminology is economics?
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drak0n1c 1174 days ago
Right the economic one, not the unrelated criminology one:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parable_of_the_broken_window

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bagacrap 1171 days ago
Yes that is the same broken window as the fallacy.

So it's famously wrong, not just suddenly discovered to be wrong.

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