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December 27, 1996
Category: dgu
p 168 Kleck says "only about 3% of DGUs among NCVS Rs are reported to interviewers." On pp 154-6 he argues that this is because Rs are worried they might get into trouble if the authorities find out about the...
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Category: dgu
J. Neil Schulman writes: If you start a survey by asking "Have you ever been a crime victim?" and do not survey people who answer NO because (a) their DGU prevented them from being damaged so they don't think of...
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December 25, 1996
Category: japan
Tim Starr writes: Japan classifies cases of husbands murdering their wives & kids then killing themselves as all suicides, no homicides, thus skewing their statistics in favor of suicides & against homicides. This claim is easily seen to be false:...
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December 22, 1996
Category: dgu
J. Neil Schulman writes: When a dozen surveys which are specifically attempting to quantify DGU's finds DGU's an order of magnitude larger than the NCVS, then you have your answer. None of those surveys other than Kleck's were designed to...
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December 20, 1996
Category: dgu
Kleck reckons that 97% of defensive gun users lie to the census bureau about it. Are we to suppose that 97% of the people don't believe legal guarantee of confidentiality? And yet those same people will tell a complete stranger...
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December 16, 1996
Category: dgu
Ray wrote: They promise confidentiality, and back it up with a law that's at the top of every survey: "NOTICE: Your report to the Census Bureau is confidential by law (US Code 42, Sections 3789g and 3735). All identifiable information...
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Category: dgu
J. Neil Schulman writes: So this data has been peer-reviewed by a top criminologist in this country who was prejudiced in advance against its results, and even HE found the scientific evidence overwhelmingly convincing. This is untrue. Wolfgang writes: "The...
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