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Tim Lambert (deltoidblog AT gmail.com) is a computer scientist at the University of New South Wales.
September 29, 2003
Category: Appalachian
(All of my postings on the shootings at the Appalachian School of law are here.) Lott has a report of a conversation with Mikael Gross on his blog. In The Bias Against Guns Lott claims that Gross pointed his...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 11:22 PM • 6 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
September 25, 2003
Category: More Guns Less Crime
Mark Kleiman has posted an email from Michael Maltz with some comments on Lott and his research. An extract: It seems that most of Lott's critics and supporters forgot about what I feel is the most damaging lie he...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 6:09 AM • • 0 TrackBacks
September 23, 2003
Category: survey
In a review of The Bias Against Guns, Pat Buchanan claims that Kleck's survey found that 11 out of every 12 times citizens use their guns in self-defense, they merely brandish them or fire a warning shot. and that...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 6:24 PM • • 0 TrackBacks
Category: meta
Site Meter says that I have now had 50,000 visits to this blog. Who could have thought that John Lott would prove to be such an interesting topic? I've actually had more visits to another page that I never...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 6:23 PM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
September 22, 2003
Category: Lott
Paul Cella writes about Lott: My amateur and incomplete (and, if you insist, predisposed) sense is that Mr. Lott has roundly disarmed his often-strident critics with the scrupulousness of his research. Fortunately, Wes Little sorts him out in comments...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 7:12 PM • • 0 TrackBacks
Category: More Guns Less Crime
Eugene Volokh posts links to Lott's latest defences. Mark Kleiman responds: Eugene Volokh seems to think that John Lott's responses to his critics are worth reading. I can't imagine why, except for those interested in abnormal psychology. He has...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 12:35 AM • 2 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
September 21, 2003
Category: links
Lindgren's latest comments have prompted Glenn Reynolds to write: I trust Jim Lindgren as a neutral arbiter with expertise in the area, and it seems to me that this time Lott's critics have him dead to rights, and he's...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 11:02 PM • 11 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: misc
Alex Tabarrok has some more on the question of whether Iraqis were well armed while Saddam was in power. (My earlier comments are here.) He points to a New York Times article that states: "Mr. Hussein, never one to...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 9:53 PM • • 0 TrackBacks
September 19, 2003
Category: survey
Over at the History News Network, a die hard Bellesiles supporter who posts under the name "Benny Smith" has attacked James Lindgren for, get this, his "ill-fated attempt to defend" Lott. Here's Smith's version of what happened: After serious...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 7:13 PM • • 0 TrackBacks
September 17, 2003
Category: creationism
Chris Mooney has a very interesting article about the dubious techniques used by creationists to make it appear that there is strong public support for teaching creationism in schools alongside scientific theories. My favourite was this question: Texas law...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 10:54 AM • 7 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
September 16, 2003
Category: links
ArchPundit writes: The simple question to Lott is why did he stop correcting for clustering in the observations. Hear the silence?...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 7:41 PM • • 0 TrackBacks
September 15, 2003
Category: links
Jeff Soyer has a lengthy response to my correction of his use of a bogus Lott statistics. Instead of correcting himself he insists that "Alphecca isn't about statistics but about bias. Lambert ignored that." Right. He just quotes statistics...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 10:57 PM • 3 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: links
Alan Schussman has a thoughtful post on the issues of how scientists should treat their data and how it relates to Lott's conduct....
Posted by Tim Lambert at 7:16 PM • • 0 TrackBacks
September 14, 2003
Category: More Guns Less Crime
Eric Helland and Alexander Taborrak have a new paper "Using Placebo Laws to Test More Guns, Less Crime : A Note". I commented on their paper back in May, but here is Lott's take (in full, 8/22/03 blog entry):...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 10:27 PM • • 0 TrackBacks
Category: More Guns Less Crime
In comments James and Rick poke more holes in Lott's excuse about the file from the future. James points out that Mac OS X machines automatically connect to network time servers to keep the time and date accurate, while...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 7:24 PM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: survey
It has now been one year since I asked him for evidence that he had conducted a survey. The original email is here....
Posted by Tim Lambert at 10:38 AM • • 0 TrackBacks
September 13, 2003
Category: More Guns Less Crime
Andrew Chamberlain observes "Once again, economist John Lott has been busted for lying." Julian Sanchez writes about Lott: "It's long past time for people who care about gun rights to cut this albatross from our necks." William Quick says...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 11:47 PM • • 0 TrackBacks
Category: More Guns Less Crime
Lott has a response to my post on the way he switches models. I was hoping he would respond to the question I have been trying to get him to answer for weeks: "Why did he remove the clustering...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 9:19 PM • 6 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
September 12, 2003
Category: links
Dick Dahl has a lengthy article about Lott and Bellesiles. He observes that Bellesiles lost his job because of his transgressions, while Lott doesn't seem to have suffered any consequences....
Posted by Tim Lambert at 10:49 PM • 2 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: More Guns Less Crime
Kevin Drum has an excellent summary of Lott's cheating with his models and his attempt at a coverup. He concludes that Lott should be fired forthwith. Niraj agrees, as Tom Spencer. Atrios says that Lott's work on the Florida...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 10:18 PM • • 0 TrackBacks
September 11, 2003
Category: More Guns Less Crime
A reader has pointed out that you can find out the real creation date of the latest version of Lott's "corrected" Table 3a by looking at the File/Document Properties/Summary with Acrobat Reader. The document was created on Sep 2...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 9:55 PM • 5 Comments • 1 TrackBacks
September 10, 2003
Category: More Guns Less Crime
Summary: When Lott discovered that correcting his coding errors made his "More Guns, Less Crime" results go away, he refused to admit it. Instead, he tried to resurrect his results by quietly changing his model. When I emailed him,...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 11:33 PM • 8 Comments • 1 TrackBacks
Category: maths
Posted by Tim Lambert at 10:19 PM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
September 8, 2003
Category: Appalachian
On his blog, Lott offers an excuse for the fact that in his book and on his blog he had not mentioned that Ted Besen contradicts Bridges' claim to have used a gun to disarm Odighizuwa: I have gotten...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 9:42 PM • • 0 TrackBacks
Category: links
ArchPundit thinks that Tom Spencer has overstated the influence that Lott has had in getting carry laws passed. One piece of information that I can add is that most of the states that passed carry laws did so before...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 6:38 PM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
September 7, 2003
Category: misc
The Federalist Society is sending Lott on a speaking tour. They asked Saul Cornell to debate Lott. This is what he sent them: Lott has been accused of research fraud and has lied on a host of other topics related...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 9:54 PM • • 0 TrackBacks
Category: misc
Glenn Reynolds links to this Dave Kopel article and says that it shows that the New York Times reporting on guns was "riddled with amateurish errors and apparent deception". Speaking of which, here is Kopel: What if a gun...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 9:27 PM • 2 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
September 6, 2003
Category: MaryRosh
Everyone has something about Lott's latest untruth that I mentioned yesterday. Mark Kleiman says Isn't there anyone in the management of the American Enterprise Institute with a modicum of institutional self-respect? Brad Delong replies: If they had any institutional self-respect,...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 2:19 PM • • 0 TrackBacks
September 5, 2003
Kevin Drum points out that a correction that Lott requested in response to this Washington Post item implies that Lott did not use "Mary Rosh" in emails when, in fact, Lott did. Drum thinks Lott is lying, which is...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 11:24 PM • • 0 TrackBacks
Category: links
Jeff Soyer has a post where he is taken in by a Lott opinion piece. He quotes Lott: In a new book, The Bias Against Guns, Bill Landes of the University of Chicago Law School and I examine multiple-victim...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 10:30 PM • • 0 TrackBacks
Category: links
Tom Spencer, commenting on Duncan's comments that I posted yesterday, writes: Unfortunately folks, as you well know, the damage is already done. We've got right-to-carry laws in the vast majority of states (mine being one of the notable exceptions...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 5:42 AM • • 0 TrackBacks
September 4, 2003
Category: Lott
Tim Lambert * Justin Lambert ** Daniel Lambert *** Objective To determine the relationship between gun brandishing and concealed carry laws. Methodology The frequency that mere brandishing was sufficient to scare off bad guys was obtained from statements made...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 7:21 PM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
September 3, 2003
Category: links
John Quiggin points to an interesting compilation of fake Internet identities. Tbogg is surprised that there are still media organizations that take Lott seriously. He also wonders where Lott got his numbers from. Well, the defensive gun use numbers...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 8:57 PM • • 0 TrackBacks
September 2, 2003
Category: files
Link to table...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 9:33 PM • 2 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: survey
Otis Dudley Duncan has sent me some comments on the attempts by pro-gun folks to dismiss criticism of Lott as some sort of payback for Bellesiles: I have gone out of my way to remark that the Bellesiles case is...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 8:16 PM • • 0 TrackBacks
September 1, 2003
Category: Appalachian
Lott has a posting responding to my comments on his claims that the news coverage of the shootings at the Appalachian School of Law was biased. I wrote: Unfortunately, Lott's counting methodology is flawed, his count missed half of...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 10:46 PM • • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Appalachian
After Lott claimed that biased news coverage of the shootings at the Appalachian School of Law deliberately omitted a defensive gun use, I did my own analysis of the news stories and found that the alleged bias was the...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 10:32 PM • • 0 TrackBacks
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