Is Pinker inclined to comment upon your analysis? Also, it would seem that the missing piece is an alternative/additional explanation for the decline. I’m not versed enough in the history to offer any, but without such it seems hard to shake off Pinker’s conclusions in the public perception. Maths is so boring. :-)
So what you’re saying is that they didn’t go hard enough on executions
“Maybe”
In the beginning I thought that you refuted the thesis but now I realize that 20% is an amazing result for a social sciences theory.
That's a fair point.
The Europea Revolution thesis is true, being back death penalty
Couldn't you estimate the genetic correlation between social status and criminality with a dataset like the NLSY with kinship information.
But I guess only Gregory Clark's dataset could estimate the correlation in medieval to industrial era England.
Is Pinker inclined to comment upon your analysis? Also, it would seem that the missing piece is an alternative/additional explanation for the decline. I’m not versed enough in the history to offer any, but without such it seems hard to shake off Pinker’s conclusions in the public perception. Maths is so boring. :-)