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Old 02-22-2009, 11:14 PM
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Originally Posted by 33girl View Post
The part that pissed me off the most was the guy from MADD saying that fatalities went up in those states that lowered the age to 18. I would like to know how many of those fatalities were people from other states who had crossed the border into an "18" state. That was part of what created the whole problem - people were driving hours away to be legal.
That's one of those faulty "stats" that are only quoted to make a point.

To use those statistics you have to control for additional factors (such as state border crossers).
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