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Originally Posted by loramin
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You don't need a survey. You look at state #1 that gives 10 years for a crime and state #2 that gives 20 years: it's that simple.
When you do, you see that the crime rate is the same in both states: state #2's harsher penalty didn't deter anyone.
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Because there are no other differences between the populations of 2 possibly very different states that might factor into those rates. Of course