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Tim Lambert (deltoidblog AT gmail.com) is a computer scientist at the University of New South Wales.
March 31, 2003
Category: links
Harvard's David Hemenway has a devastating review of Lott's new book, The Bias against Guns. Apparently Lott claims that the "impact from closing the gun show 'loophole'" was a reduction of 102% in Indiana's auto theft rate, which would have...
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Category: survey
Julian Sanchez has some thoughtful comments on the Heartland and Independence Institutes' deletion of Lott's attribution of the 98% to Kleck. One more piece of information I can add is on the timing of the changes. On March 5, I...
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March 30, 2003
Category: files
John R. Lott, Jr. Resident Scholar American Enterprise Institute [Critical Commentary by Tim Lambert This is a copy of the original document by Lott, downloaded from Lott's web site here on March 21, 2003. My comments appear in italics like...
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March 29, 2003
Category: More Guns Less Crime
In today's letters page in the Washington Post, Saul Cornell catches Lott misquoting Mustard. In a response to this review of Evaluating Gun Policy, Lott claims that Mustard wrote that the data showed "sharp decreases in murder, rape and robbery."...
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Category: survey
One feature of Lott's behaviour in this affair is his refusal to admit that he attributed the 98% figure to "national surveys" and to Gary Kleck. Instead, he told Slate "A lot of those discussions could have been written more...
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March 28, 2003
Category: survey
Meanwhile, CNSNews.com seems to be blissfully unaware of the Lott affair, with this story reporting: "Surveys Lott conducted in January 1997 indicated that guns are used more than two million times a year in self-defense, either by threatening to use...
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Category: MaryRosh
I've done some more investigation in Lott's latest explanation for his Mary Rosh postings: I originally used my own name but switched after receiving threatening and obnoxious telephone calls from other Internet posters. The first group of Lott postings were...
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March 27, 2003
Category: More Guns Less Crime
This story in the Zanesville Times Recorder highlights the problems that Lott's behaviour has caused for advocates of concealed carry laws. They are now having to say things like: "Lott's research has little bearing on the state's need for responsible...
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March 26, 2003
Category: MaryRosh
Mac Diva comments on Lott's claims in his Washington Post letter. Mac doesn't believe Lott's story about the threatening phone calls that forced Lott into the Mary Rosh deception....
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March 25, 2003
Category: links
US Newswire has a story about Lott's problems....
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March 24, 2003
Category: links
Guy Cabot comments on how Lott keeps trying to make it look like the question was whether he had a disk crash or not. Jo Fish isn't impressed either. Tom Spencer suggests that the American Enterprise Institute is looking for...
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March 23, 2003
Category: survey
The Washington Post has printed a letter from Lott responding to two Washington Post articles, one about his survey, and one about Mary Rosh. Lott makes several false claims in his letter: that the Post did not print a letter...
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March 22, 2003
Category: links
Laura Billings has a article in the St Paul Pioneer Press where she argues that Lott has "been largely discredited as a reliable source of information on gun policy". In the Albuquerque Alibi Steven Robert Allen lambasts both Lott and...
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March 18, 2003
Category: survey
ArchPundit has a post and another post on Lott's new survey. He argues that Lott has replicated his previous survey---by replicating a worthless survey with another worthless survey....
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March 13, 2003
Category: survey
Lott's new book has been published. This means that I can disclose the results of his 2002 survey. In that survey, 7 people said that they had used a gun for self defence. Of those 7 people, only one reported...
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March 8, 2003
Category: survey
David Mustard has made a statement giving his recollections about when Lott told him about the survey: I do not remember the first time John Lott and I talked about the survey. At the time there was nothing exceptional about...
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March 6, 2003
Category: survey
Samuel Browning has some thoughtful comments ....
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March 2, 2003
Category: survey
Lott makes it into the Sunday comics. (Thanks to Julian Sanchez for the link.)...
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Category: MaryRosh
Patti Thorn investigates how many other fake reviews there are at Amazon.com....
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March 1, 2003
Category: survey
Glenn Reynolds has an update with comments from Dan Polsby who writes: Numerous of Lott's opponents (John Donohue, Ian Ayres, Phil Cook, Jens Ludwig, and many others) use the Lott-Mustard numbers, subsequently updated by Lott, in their work because they...
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