Steven Malanga: No, You're Not Imagining the Illegal Alien Crime Wave

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   Of course it is politically incorrect to acknowledge that illegal aliens are more likely to be criminals.

   There's a massive academic/research apparatus devoted to propping up the absurd progressive dogma that illegals are actually more law-abiding that [spit] so-called "legal" [spit] so-called Americans...

   For the last decade or so, I've used the following system:

   If a "study" comports with progressive orthodoxy: discount it.

   Wait for the meta-study.

   If its conclusion is politically incorrect (conservative, liberal, libertarian)...take it seriously. It must be methodologically better than average or it would have been shit-canned.

   Political correctness is the baseline.

   It's basically like a null result at this point.

   

   Of course I tend to discount almost all single studies in the social sciences anyway...because so many of them are shit.

   When the history of the replication crisis is written, I have no doubt that we'll find that vastly more unreplicable studies friendly to the left have been published than those friendly to the right.