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| Topic | How religion helps our community - Churchgoers are less likely to commit crime. |
| Anteaterking 08/29/17 4:53:43 PM #33: | Hexagon posted... This article is trying to spin religious indoctrination as the cause of people making better choices, and that may be true because the threat of eternal damnation is pretty convincing, but it's also suggesting that the lack of religion is the cause of high crime rates. Is it not possible that any form of structured activities; organized sport, volunteering, school clubs can achieve the same thing when you live in a poor community? I guess we'll never know because we decided to go with correlation=causation at the very start. This is what I like to call the "Sorority members have higher GPA on average" effect. Basically anyone who lives on campus or is part of any organization, etc. puts more than the bare minimum effort into going to college, so they tend to have higher GPA than the alternative which is usually the people who don't really have any reason to be in college that also live at home. Which usually is the group of people who flame out in college. --- ... Copied to Clipboard! |
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