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return2ozma@lemmy.world to News@lemmy.world · 1 year ago

Large majority of homeless people in California are not illicit drug users, study finds

www.latimes.com

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Large majority of homeless people in California are not illicit drug users, study finds

www.latimes.com

return2ozma@lemmy.world to News@lemmy.world · 1 year ago
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Even though a majority of people on the streets do not use illegal drugs, they are both a factor leading to homelessness and an effect of it, the study found. Methamphetamine is the drug of choice.

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    “25% said they had never used drugs.”

    Something, something, self reported survey.

    https://www.creative-wisdom.com/teaching/WBI/memory.shtml

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      A ton of people who are unhoused work regular jobs by day and sleep in their car by night. 25% is completely plausible to me. You act as though they’re all degenerates.

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        Typical liberal crap. They have to tell stories to themselves that make their relative security and comfort into a sign of moral superiority, not just a roll of the dice.

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          You talking about the MAGAts?

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            I did not stutter. I said liberals.

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              Nobody does moral superiority like white supremacists.

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      I wonder if anyone has told researchers that people can lie. You linked research about the topic, and people study these things in school before doing it professionally, but they’re not smart like us so they must not have thought about this while conducting their survey.

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        Less “not thought about it while conducting the survey” and more “reporters not thinking about it when reporting the results of the survey.”

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      How do we know that’s not a lie?

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        Exactly the problem with self reported surveys.

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          No one ever lies about using drugs though.

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