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Tim Lambert (deltoidblog AT gmail.com) is a computer scientist at the University of New South Wales.
September 26, 2002
Category: survey
[On Sep 27 2002 I posted this to firearmsregprof.] Norman Heath writes: Just a suggestion, but perhaps Lott simply made a rough comparison between the number of claimed DGUs and the total number of shootings. I.e. if total shootings...
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Category: survey
[On Sep 27 2002 I posted this to firearmsregprof and emailed it to Lott.] Peter Boucher, replying to this post, writes: I don't have a copy of Point Blank handy, but I seem to recall the 98% figure either...
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September 24, 2002
Category: survey
[On Sep 25 2002 I posted this to firearmsregprof. I also emailed it to John Lott. ] I have replies to queries about Lott's survey from Tom Smith and Al Alschuler. Neither had heard anything about it. Other than...
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September 19, 2002
Category: survey
[On Sep 20 2002 I posted this to firearmsregprof and emailed it to Lott.] James Lindgren writes: After my post to this list saying that "a big national study doesn't just disappear without a trace" because a computer crashes,...
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September 17, 2002
Category: survey
[On Sep 18 2002 I posted this to firearmsregprof and emailed it to Lott.] Some more information about DGU surveying from a Kleck email: "We got 4,977 completions over 3 months, using an average of about 10 callers per...
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September 16, 2002
Category: survey
[On Sep 17 2002 I posted this to firearmsregprof.] I've had replies to my queries about Lott's survey from David Mustard and Gary Kleck. Mustard said that he was not involved with the survey. All he was able to...
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September 14, 2002
Category: survey
[On Sep 15 2002 I posted this to firearmsregprof.] In response to my appeal for any information about this survey Lott claims to have carried out in 1997 I received this email from Geoffrey Huck. Unfortunately, as you can...
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September 13, 2002
Category: survey
[On Sep 14 2002 I posted this to firearmsregprof. I also emailed it to John Lott. ] Way back in 1993 in talk.politics.guns, C. D. Tavares wrote: The answer is that the gun never needs to be fired in...
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