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Originally Posted by LA21st
They didnt verify anything. Its a bogus survey. If you keep bringing it up, Ill keep saying nothing was actually verified.
And your statement is so stupid. If someone moves to CA with no job or saving but loses a hostel room or something, that counts? Why would CA get blamed for people's dumb choices?
That survey is complete nonsense and you know it.
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I understand that it's important to look at a study's methodology and data sources to avoid misinterpreting the findings and obviously surveys can have self-reporting problems. But there's no apparent reason why a large portion of respondents would want to hide the fact that they moved from another state since moving between states isn't illegal (or even stigmatized as far as I'm aware). Plus, it wasn't just the survey but also in-depth interviews. That doesn't mean it can't have problems, but I don't see anything serious enough to write off an entire 90+ page, academic, peer-reviewed study published in the American Journal of Epidemiology as "complete nonsense." It tends to be fairly easy to identify when a survey has a potential weakness, and a study with that level of rigor can generally identify and adjust for such potential weaknesses quite easily.
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