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		giantg2 on May 10, 2022 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: The ACLU Has Lost Its Way How so? You'd have to figure out the N in a population of hundreds of thousands (the state's prison population) without any other variables to go on.

PuppyTailWags on May 10, 2022 [–]

It breaks down the N by location, which... what defines a location here? Is it a state? Is it a single prison? For a small N, narrow location is definitely a de-anonymization factor.

giantg2 on May 10, 2022 | [–]

There's no mention of any narrow locations. The numbers are at the state level per the request in the article.

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