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Erich Bloodaxe BSN

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1. Self-selection bias.

Reply to tenderfoot (Original post)

Fri Oct 31, 2014, 05:18 PM

Oct 2014

The kind of people most strongly drawn to jobs in which you exercise power over others are going to be the ones who basically shouldn't have power over others, because they'll abuse it. Police and politicians both.

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