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New NBER research finds that US crash deaths rise by ~15% on dates of major album releases (www.nber.org)

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[–] Almacca@aussie.zone 4 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Presumably they could control for that by looking at the stats for Fridays when no major album releases. And they could probably check what they were listening to at the time as well. But I wouldn't be surprised if you were right.