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  The bloat is coming from inside the house!

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  It seems like there’s almost certainly a confounding variable here: the kids who are likely to engage in criminality are also the ones most likely to do poorly in school, skip classes, and be held back. It’s more correlation than causal - for the same reason that we couldn’t just give every student straight A’s and expect them to have similar outcomes as students who would have otherwise earned straight A’s. Working backwards like that is like trying to help someone lose weight by tweaking...

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  I thought about that too, but I would imagine a LOT of students would’ve had to be held back to make this kind of impact on the state average. I would bet that the pressure it applied to students, schools, and parents did most of the heavy lifting.

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  I only bought the 4 and 5 new, but I collect retro games and have all 5 base models. I used to pick them up on eBay or at garage sales back in the day. I remember that feeling of winning a bid (I didn’t have a lot of money for it, so it took a while). Playstations weren’t my consoles growing up - I went from Nintendo systems to Xbox, but I still played them a lot at friends’ houses.