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Re: Drugs and Alcohol - Dirty Little Secrets

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Originally Posted by techhelpbb View Post
It's still interesting but you ignored what I pointed out:
The studies that show those statistics ignore population density.

So yes: let's sort out facts from study statistics that lack important pieces of data.

Or as I like to joke the magnitude of falsehoods: lies...dang lies...statistics...datasheets
A datasheet in the hands of person without comprehensive knowledge is a dangerous thing.
Statistics are just as bad - cause all you need to do is accept the conclusion and ignore the critical thinking.
Sorry -- it was hard to parse your original text. You strung together three things fragments that aren't sentences.

I'm not sure why population density is a relevant metric here. If I'm asked to address the problem of drug overdoses and I have limited resources, I'm going to try to help the largest number of people I can -- and it seems to me that the largest number of people affected by this problem are less affluent; it doesn't really matter where they live.

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To relate this to my team so as to make the content seem more "on topic" -- My team has a tremendous disparity in socioeconomic status across the student population. We serve students from the inner-city alongside those from the most affluent suburbs in Washington. If I were to focus my attention on the rich kids because I was under the impression that those students are at greater risk, I'd be failing to do the best possible job I could and entirely because of bad information. I don't know how you can possibly discuss how to address a problem if you don't even understand it.
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