"Joseph E. Olson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > ������� Jim Lindgren's "report"concerning John Lott's survey of defensive gun > usage got wide publicity on several blogs.� But the concerns I raise haven't > yet been exposed.� They should be, IMHO. > This post is directed to David Mustard's recollections.� I've been told that > there is�a disparity between Mustard's memory and that of Franklin Zimring > regarding a telephone conversation - did it happen in 2001 or 2002?� The > implication is that if the date is off the substance must be too.� The date > shouldn't be a point of controversary.
This is the first time anyone has raised the issue of that date. I agree that it is unimportant. Why is Mustard trying to make a big deal about it? I have placed Mustard's statement on the web at http://timlambert.org/guns/files/mustardstatement2.html I don't think it provides any good evidence that helps Lott. That Mustard learned about the survey before October 1999 is to be expected. There are no confirmed references to the survey until May 1999, which is likely the time that he invented it. He told Otis Dudley Duncan about it on May 13, mentioned in a letter to the WSJ on May 25, and emailed me about it on June 23. Lott was trying to make his story about the survey plausible by making sure lots of people had heard about it. He didn't tell me that this survey was the source of his 98% number. If he had, I probably would have asked him for more details. (I first noticed the 98% claim in late 1998, but assumed it was just another bit of Lott's carelessness with facts.) So Lott probably first told Mustard about the survey in May/June 1999 when he told everyone else. This is why Mustard remembers hearing about it before October 1999. -- Tim _______________________________________________ To post, send message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To subscribe, unsubscribe, change options, or get password, see http://lists.ucla.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/firearmsregprof
