• Diplomjodler@lemmy.world
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    1 month ago

    It only worked every time it had been tried. But that’s of course no reason to make this a general policy. That would be common sense, we don’t do that here!

    • athairmor@lemmy.world
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      1 month ago

      It didn’t actually work, though.

      As someone else pointed out—and the article was updated to say, the people getting money didn’t fair significantly better than the control group.

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    1 month ago

    First thing I asked myself from this headline was “what about the people in the control group” and sure enough, there’s no significant difference according to the note at the start of the article.

    • jorp@lemmy.world
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      1 month ago

      in vuvuzela they make everyone use the same toothbrush and only party leaders get to rinse first