Skipjack wrote:The link showed, very clearly, ALL drug users. All drugs, not just pot.
The link is bogus!
You cant tell me that someone who is drunk can work even half as efficiently as someone who is sober. Since most drugs have at least the same effect on someones cognitive abilities (with some exceptions), this is totally unbelieveable.
That's what *I* said! The notion is false on it's face.
I remember years ago... (OH NO! Not another Anecdote!
) There was this fellow I knew who was pretty kooky. He had some mental issues. He claims he used to work in Army Intelligence as some sort of crypto analyst. He did have a bachelor of science degree, and he was quite good at passing technical tests, but beyond that, the man was a complete moron, and incapable of doing anything right. He likewise believed that he was being followed by men in black suits, and that if Russian agents ever got their hands on his notebook, it would set back the defense of the United States by decades.
Anyway, He once approached me with a grave concern. Russia was building 500 massive bomb shelters at a cost of a billion dollars apiece. (This would have been around 1985 or so.) I told him that could not possibly be true, because at the time the United State's Gross domestic Product was something like a Trillion Dollars, and Russia wasn't nearly the economic powerhouse that the US was.
I told him that it was completely absurd that Russia would spend a HALF A TRILLION DOLLARS building bomb shelters, when that would have required such a HUGE burden on the Soviet economy. I told him he must have gotten something wrong somewhere.
He eventually brings me a book, (I think it was called "Deepest Black" or some such) and he shows me where in the book it says that Russia is building 500 bomb shelters at a cost of 1 billion dollars each.
As I read through it, I concluded the Author was a moron. Apparently he had been looking at Satellite photos of Russia, decided some shadows were bomb shelters of a certain size, then asked a Civil engineer to tell him how much it would cost to build a bomb shelter of this size.
From what I can gather, the Civil engineer figured out immediately the man was a moron, and gave him the billion dollar figure to make him go away.
The point is, some statistical data can be immediately discerned to be crap. The notion that drugged up people have lower unemployment than average is just such data.
