Hot weather increases crime across multiple cities.
High temperatures are strongly associated with an increase in suicides, researchers have found. Heat has been linked to a rise in violent crime and aggression, emergency room visits and hospitalizations for mental disorders, and deaths — especially among people with schizophrenia, dementia, psychosis and substance use. For every 1 degree Celsius (or 1.8 degrees Fahrenheit) increase in temperature, scientists have estimated that there is a nearly 5 percent increase in the risk of death among patients with psychosis, dementia or substance use.
This clever researcher analyzed language and emoticons in billions of tweets and correlated it with ambient temperature.
He also found we feel blue on Mondays.
http://patrickbaylis.com/files/Baylis_JMP.pdf
Reminds me of a New York Times story where rising heat was linked to murder crimes.
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/19/nyregion/19murder.html
Reminds me of a New York Times story where rising heat was linked to murder crimes.
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/19/nyregion/19murder.html
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