User talk:Matteo

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[edit] Grosse Pointe photos

Hi, you've added a couple of images of Grosse Pointe High School (Image:Gphighsouth.jpg and Image:Gps-pic4.jpg), but they don't have information about their source and license. Could you fix this? If you've taken them by yourself, you may license them under GFDL by adding a {{GFDL}} tag to the image description page. Thanks! –Mysid (talk) 13:05, August 27, 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Image:Craftsman.gif

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[edit] Hello Matt

What was the deal with them deleting your pictures? --Bisyork 22:55, 17 January 2006 (UTC)

meh, I'll eventually get to it~ Matt

[edit] "interactive physics"

Please do not add commercial links (or links to your own private websites) to Wikipedia. Wikipedia is not a vehicle for advertising or a mere collection of external links. You are, however, encouraged to add content instead of links to the encyclopedia. See the welcome page to learn more. Thanks. User:Zoe|(talk) 02:25, 17 May 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Welfare programs and property crime

Matteo keeps inserting a source into the welfare state article which he (or she) claims supports the idea that welfare programs increase crime. Unfortunately, Matteo has obviously not even read the source he (or she) keeps inserting. The source is available at:

http://ei.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/abstract/XXXV/1/120

Here is the abstract from this source:

"A simple economic model of criminal behavior shows that welfare payments will reduce the time allocated to illegal activities under risk aversion and other reasonable assumptions. This theoretical prediction is confirmed by the empirical findings: using a set of cross-sectional U.S. state data for 1987, it is found that cash or in-kind welfare programs have a negative and often significant effect on property crime. More general programs such as public housing seem to have a larger effect than those aimed primarily at women (AFDC). Medicaid and school lunch programs apparently have little effect on property crime."

So, the source finds that "welfare programs have a negative and often significant effect on property crime". A "negative effect" means a reducing effect. A "siginificant" effect means that the effect is statistically significant, that is, it is unlikely to be the result of random error. So, the source finds that welfare programs reduce property crime.

This would have been obvious to anyone who had actually read the source. Thus, the conclusions to the source argue that:

"It is found that welfare programs, at least those examined in this paper, have a negative and often significant impact on property crime. This important finding suggests that the view that welfare causes crime has to be treated skeptically. Our measures of welfare programs suggest that property crime can be reduced by increasing per capita welfare payments, recipient-population ratio, or maximum benefits in a state...My results seem to indicate at least one positive dimension of welfare programs: they can reduce property crime."

130.56.65.25 02:24, 11 May 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Non-free use disputed for Image:Snapon.jpg

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