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"They did not spend more money on alcohol or drugs, contrary to what people believe, and instead they spent the money on rent, food, housing, transit, furniture, a used car, clothes. It's entirely the opposite of what people think they're going to do with the money."

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[–] pjhenry1216@kbin.social 6 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I mean, a study of how non homeless people spend money would probably be skewed and ignore drug addicts too. Studies ignore outliers that would have an obvious affect on what's being studied.

Are you wondering what a drug addict spends money on?

[–] eeltech@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I'm wondering what is the percentage of homeless that are addicts or have mental health issues. You seem to be confident they are outliers, but what is the percentage? Is it 1%? 25%? 50%?

Seems like a logical fallacy to me without knowing that stat.

[–] Jamie@jamie.moe 2 points 1 year ago

It's basically rule #1 to not give an addict money, but give them things they can't trade for material value instead.