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Tim Lambert (deltoidblog AT gmail.com) is a computer scientist at the University of New South Wales.
October 30, 2003
Category: meta
Donald Luskin has a weblog mainly devoted to criticism of prominent economist Paul Krugman. I have found it to be a good example to help guide my criticism of John Lott's work. A good example of how not to...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 6:38 AM • 1 Comments •
October 29, 2003
Category: Kellermann
Pro-gun writers frequently make false accusations that researchers they oppose do not share their data. For example, Lott claimed that Ayres and Donohue's data was not available even though it was on Ayres' webpage. Another example is Carl Moody, who...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 10:01 PM • 1 Comments •
Category: links
Kevin Connors admits that he has been "quite remiss in following the efforts to debunk Prof. Lott's work", but unfamiliarity with the case isn't going to stop him from having an opinion on the matter. Connors takes issue with...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 12:40 PM • •
October 27, 2003
Category: More Guns Less Crime
The Oct 12 Wichita Eagle has a story with a brief comment from John Donohue on Lott's work: Among his most vocal academic critics is John Donohue, a Stanford University law professor whose published critiques of Lott's works cite errors...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 9:40 PM • 5 Comments •
October 25, 2003
Category: Lott
Michael Maltz has sent me some comments on the severe problems data Lott used for his "More Guns, Less Crime" thesis. Note that this is a different set of problems to the coding errors that Lott has been dodging...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 3:05 PM • •
October 24, 2003
Category: files
by Michael Maltz Anyone who has looked closely at the data used by John Lott in coming up with his “findings” in More Guns, Less Crime (MGLC) would come to the same conclusion, MGLC = GIGO. First, the data...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 9:40 PM • •
October 23, 2003
Category: survey
Clayton Cramer has mounted a defence of Lott on the survey question. Just as Bellesiles tried to persuade people that the attacks on his work were politically motivated, Cramer tries to persuade us that the attacks on Lott are...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 8:40 PM • 1 Comments •
October 20, 2003
Category: links
Tom Spencer has an "I told you so" posting on Clayton Cramer. He points out that he correctly predicted Cramer's behaviour back in January. I thought that after his experience with Bellesiles, Cramer would eventually come to the realization...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 11:38 PM • 1 Comments •
Category: UK
Glenn Reynolds links to a news story about crime rates in England and declares "More gun control, more crime". However, the story actually states that there was less overall crime. The story also states that gun crime has increased...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 6:26 PM • 25 Comments •
October 18, 2003
Category: Australia
After misrepresenting my views in this statement, I don't know if you actually found Dr. Lott engaged in a lie or not, but I do know that your irrational desire to see victims disarmed and murdered by criminals puts...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 10:32 PM • 10 Comments •
October 17, 2003
Category: meta
I've been getting some comment spam, so I have installed Fletcher Penney's blacklist plugin, and modified it so it just blocks comment posting from the blacklisted IPs. If you post a comment and it doesn't show up, sorry. Email it...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 8:30 AM • 2 Comments •
October 16, 2003
Category: More Guns Less Crime
On August 18, in his interview with Chris Mooney, when he was asked if there were coding errors, Lott replied: There are a couple minor errors, the data is on, the data is available for anybody to look at,...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 9:11 PM • • 1 TrackBacks
Category: links
Randy Barnett updates his earlier post where he pointed to Lott's response to the Mother Jones article to make it clear that he found Lott's response to be thoroughly evasive and that he is not going to be relying...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 7:21 PM • 2 Comments •
October 15, 2003
Category: files
[Note: This was an attachement to a Nov 17 posting to firearmsregprof on Nov 17. My comments are in italics like this. TL] by David B. Mustard I take issue with two points of Jim Lindgren’s representation of my statements...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 9:40 PM • •
Category: links
Chris Mooney has a couple of comments on Lott's response to his article. You can also read comments from Nick Confessore on Tapped and Atrios. Update: And Randy Barnett repeats his call for an independent panel to assess the...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 8:37 PM • •
October 14, 2003
Category: More Guns Less Crime
Lott has posted some comments by Florenz Plassmann on the controversy about "More Guns, Less Crime". Plassmann writes: In their response to our paper, Ayres and Donohue have pointed out that our extended data set contains errors. Correction of...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 10:56 PM • 1 Comments •
Category: More Guns Less Crime
Lott has posted some criticism of Chris Mooney's article. Let's see how many errors he has successfully identified: 1) Paraphrasing claim from the Chronicle of Higher Education stating that the "coding errors had not been reviewed by a third...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 7:10 PM • •
Category: misc
Lott has responded to "Sadly, No!"'s comments on his analysis that purported to show that the media was biased in favour of black quarterbacks. On his blog he writes: During the weeks when quarterbacks played about 67 percent of the...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 5:02 PM • 1 Comments •
Category: links
Mark Kleiman writes: What seems to me even more striking, though Mooney doesn't mention it, is the difference in the way the two are treated in the mainstream press: while no news article about Bellesiles could fail to mention...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 1:30 PM • •
Category: misc
Kevin Drum links to Chris Mooney's article. In his comments, Jane Galt writes: I agree that Lott has ruined his credibility, but I believe JadeGold has it backwards; Bellesiles work has been cited in several court decisions related to...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 1:25 PM • 1 Comments •
Category: More Guns Less Crime
Mother Jones has posted Chris Mooney's interview with Lott. Definitely worth reading. First read Mooney's commentry and follow the links to the transcripts....
Posted by Tim Lambert at 12:30 AM • •
October 13, 2003
Category: Lott
Glenn Reynolds thinks that Chris Mooney's piece is "not a bad summary" but opines that it is somewhat slanted. Reynolds thinks that the article should have noted that Saul Cornell's work is funded by the Joyce Foundation. This is...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 11:56 PM • 6 Comments •
Category: More Guns Less Crime
Chris Mooney has published an article on Lott in Mother Jones. The whole article is well worth reading, but the way that Lott kept changing his story about the coding errors is particularly interesting: In the face of this evidence,...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 7:37 PM • •
October 12, 2003
Category: Bellesiles
Benny Smith has replied to Andrew Ackerman's article that suggested that Benny Smith was really Michael Bellesiles. (My earlier comment is here.) Smith has a good argument against one of the pieces of evidence pointing to him being Bellesiles---he...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 8:55 PM • •
October 11, 2003
Category: cherry picking
Lott has an article which purports to show that Rush Limbaugh was right when he claimed that Donovan McNabb was overrated because the media wanted to see a black quarterback do well. Lott looked at whether media coverage was more...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 9:48 PM • •
Category: misc
Mary Rosh was Lott's most determined online defender, posting many messages, almost all of them defending Lott and displaying close familiarity with Lott's work. Benny Smith is Bellesiles' most determined online defender, posting many messages, almost all of them...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 7:54 AM • 8 Comments •
October 6, 2003
Category: links
Tom Spencer offers an explanation for Clayton Cramer's attack on Donohue: I think it's safe to say that Cramer long ago crossed the line between reason and emotion regarding his view of John Lott's situation. Like any true believer, he...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 10:13 PM • 2 Comments •
October 5, 2003
Category: links
Clayton Cramer tells us that he doesn't believe the criticism of Lott because his opponents are clearly fierce anti-gun advocates, and not above a few tricks of their own.You read their work outside of the statistical area, and it's...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 9:22 AM • 6 Comments •
October 4, 2003
Category: links
You have to scroll down towards the end of this monster posting. Zycher has proven to be profoundly careless with his facts in his post, which makes this comment of his rather self-referential: The modern art of blogging---of which...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 12:21 AM • •
Category: links
Tyler Cowen reacts to the calls from Mark Kleiman, Glenn Reynolds and Randy Barnett for a panel to investigate Lott's conduct: My first reaction is to suggest that we already have such a panel every time John, or anyone...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 12:00 AM • •
October 3, 2003
Category: links
Randy Barnett adds his voice to those calling for the American Enterprise Institute to conduct an investigation into Lott's conduct. He also writes: Since Jim Lindgren's unsuccessful effort to verify some of Lott's claims from the criticisms of Tim...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 6:19 PM • •
October 2, 2003
Category: links
Daniel Davies criticises Zycher for the obscurity of Zycher's allegation about a fundamental error in Ayres and Donohue. And he dubs me "the Ultimate Lott Trainspotter". Where did I put my anorak? Mark Kleiman calls for the American Enterprise...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 10:04 PM • 1 Comments •
Category: survey
Glenn Reynolds has posted a defence of Lott by Benjamin Zycher. Lindgren has a reply on the same page that should definitely be read by anyone interested in Lott and the survey---there are some very interesting details in there...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 7:15 PM • 2 Comments •
Category: Lott
Back in January, in my very first posting I have the following comment on Clayton Cramer's posting of a letter from Lott: [There used to be some comments here about the results of Lott's new survey. Clayton had posted...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 12:01 AM • 1 Comments •
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