please disregard the previous message, it was not written by me
Patrick McCann
[EMAIL PROTECTED] 02/06/03 10:30AM
I'm quite sure that if this happened with a Brookings scholar he
would be fired. It will be interesting to see what AEI does. Hats
off to Sanchez at Cato for discovering this. - - Bill Dickens
A few years ago, Michael Lerner, the Editor of Tikkun (a very
Indeed, the main finding from the surveys is not the brandishment result
but the fact that guns are used defensively several million times a year
(according to Kleck's survey and several others.)
Which is highly suspect. It is computed by projecting the fraction of people in a
relatively small
In a message dated 2/5/03 12:01:23 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Indeed, the main finding from the surveys is not the brandishment result
but the fact that guns are used defensively several million times a year
(according to Kleck's survey and several others.)
Which is highly suspect. It is
How would one estimate the accuracy of self-reports of self-defense? I
know in medical research you can assess the validity of self-reported
health by doing follow up medical exams or seeing if the respondent dies
or becomes seriously ill shortly after the survey.
Is self-defense just one of
While she was Attorney General, Janet Reno commissioned a study to try to
prove that private firearms ownership does not deter crime. The commission
concluded nonetheless that Americans use firearms .5 to 1.5 million times a
year to deter crimes. Given the obvious bias of the study, this
How would one estimate the accuracy of self-reports of self-defense? I
know in medical research you can assess the validity of self-reported
health by doing follow up medical exams or seeing if the respondent dies
or becomes seriously ill shortly after the survey.
Well one thing one can do is
Who knows the impact on crime of simply having an NRA sticker on the
front window of a home, or a sign that says, This home protected by
Smith and Wesson. No way to know (even with a survey) the number of
times owning or giving the perception of owning a fire arm has provided
disincentive to a
How would one estimate the accuracy of self-reports of self-defense? I
know in medical research you can assess the validity of self-reported
health by doing follow up medical exams or seeing if the respondent dies
or becomes seriously ill shortly after the survey.
One possibility would be to
It's my understanding that Kleck uses FBI crime statistics in his
computations.
Those are estimates of the active use of firearms to deter crimes. It
appears that the ownership of firearms also passively discourages crimes:
while the US has a hire rate of public crime than in Europe, the
...
The thing that makes me extremely skeptical of these numbers is that
I don't know a single gun owner who carries his/her gun outside the
house unless the trip is to use the gun (to hunt or for target
shooting). The vast majority of crimes against individuals are not
perpetrated against
Two last comments on the Lott business. First, there is a reasonably good
summary by Tim Noah in Slate,
http://slate.msn.com/id/2078084/
Second, a private email pointed out that in my deeply cynical post on Lott,
my reference to the Lott discussion was about the whole dispute, much of it
on web
Thanks for the link about Slate, but there is something fairly annoying.
Lott claims:
In 98 percent of the cases, such polls show, people simply brandish the weapon to
stop an attack.
Tim Noah, disputes this, yet also FAILS to say what the polls do show.
But polls by the Los Angeles Times,
I seem to recall a journalist in Boston being terminated for writing a "composite" story a few years ago. While the "facts" of the story were accurate, the "character" was ficticious. Shouldn't academics be held to the same standard?
TW
He represented himself as someone who had taken courses from himself and
presented testimonials about his character from that persona. That isn't
lying?
I confess I find the whole discussion of John Lott a bit bizarre, although
it may be that after nearly two decades of working as a full time
I disagree on the second point. John Lott's children are just as free
to submit reviews as anyone else--and lots of people use false names
on Usenet. The more interesting question is whether his son had read
the book--but I gather his mother helped with the review, and she
surely has.
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--- William Dickens [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I'm quite sure that if this happened with a Brookings
scholar he would be fired. It will be interesting to
see what AEI does. Hats off to Sanchez at Cato for
discovering this.
Writing under a pen name while creating no lies
regarding the actual issues
Writing under a pen name while creating no lies
regarding the actual issues involved is a fireable
offense?!
He represented himself as someone who had taken courses from himself and presented
testimonials about his character from that persona. That isn't lying? More to the
point. Allowing a
--- William Dickens [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
He represented himself as someone who had taken
courses from himself and presented testimonials about
his character from that persona. That isn't lying?
Not about the issues involved. The debate is about
violent crime, not Lott. Frankly, given that
Writing under a pen name while creating no lies
regarding the actual issues involved is a fireable
offense?!
He represented himself as someone who had taken courses from himself
and presented testimonials about his character from that persona.
That isn't lying? More to the point. Allowing a
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