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Tim Lambert (deltoidblog AT gmail.com) is a computer scientist at the University of New South Wales.
July 24, 1996
Category: Washington DC
James B. Clark writes: Here's your table. You didn't include the data from 1967-1972, so I have no idea what it looks like. If you pick 1975, 1976, 1977, or 1978 I would bet that a decline in the homicide...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 9:17 PM • •
July 7, 1996
Category: dgu
Alternatively, a respondent making up a DGU, or describing a friend's DGU as if it happened to someone in the respondent's household will tend to make him or herself the defensive gun user. Joel Friedman writes: While I do not...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 2:01 PM • •
July 5, 1996
Category: dgu
Yes, the measure of shooting DGUs is inaccurate because of the small number (16) of sample cases. A 95% confidence interval is 100,000 to 300,000 criminals are shot by armed citizens each year. However, even allowing for the inaccuracy, the...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 1:20 PM • •
