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Tim Lambert (deltoidblog AT gmail.com) is a computer scientist at the University of New South Wales.
November 27, 2003
Category: survey
In April 2000, Lott published an article in Economic Inquiry entitled "Does a Helping Hand Put Others at Risk?: Affirmative Action, Police Departments, and Crime" (subscription required). This is what he had to say about women police and their...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 8:39 PM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
November 24, 2003
Category: Appalachian
Bob Somerby nails Bernard Goldberg's repetition of Lott's false claim that the media deliberately concealed defensive gun use in the shootings at the Appalachian School of Law....
Posted by Tim Lambert at 9:58 PM • • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Kennesaw
Glenn Reynolds points to a page that purports to show the effect on crime of Kennesaw's ordinance that made gun ownership mandatory. Unfortunately the numbers given there are misleading---they just give the crime rates for the year before the...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 9:46 PM • 18 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
November 22, 2003
Category: Baghdad
In my previous entry on the Baghdad murder rate I noted that pretty well every paper that had reported the Baghdad murder rate had given a vastly higher figure than Lott's number and the only paper out of step...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 11:26 PM • • 0 TrackBacks
November 20, 2003
Category: computers
Nick Confessore has an interesting article in which he reveals that webzine Tech Central Station is actually drafted by DCI, an organization that specializes in astroturfing. An extract: TCS's articles have also complemented work being done by DCI. During...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 8:01 PM • 4 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
November 19, 2003
Category: Appalachian
Lott's favourite example of the "Bias Against Guns" is the story of the shootings at the Appalachian School of Law. Lott performed a superficial analysis of the news stories about the shootings and found that very few of the...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 10:54 PM • 4 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
November 17, 2003
Category: links
On Nov 1 the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel published on op-ed by Gregory Stanford who wrote: Here's the true question: Do guns in the hands of private citizens with clean records do more good than harm? Notably, the officials who...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 9:55 PM • 2 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
November 15, 2003
Category: politics
After our earlier discussion Steve Bainbridge has a post where he concedes: I was pretty confident that many, if not most, of my readers would disagree with Lambert and conclude that the inferences I drew from the memo were correct....
Posted by Tim Lambert at 10:05 PM • 3 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
November 13, 2003
Category: links
In on op-ed in the Southeast Missourian, Peter Kinder, president pro tem of the Missouri Senate writes Author and researcher John Lott wrote a book entitled "More Guns, Less Crime" that makes the case. His work hasn't been effectively...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 9:33 PM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
November 12, 2003
Category: politics
I was reading the normally sensible Steve Bainbridge when I came across this post that seems to have come from the planet Zebulon in the galaxy Warblogger. Bainbridge offers his interpretation of an intelligence memo in parallel with Kevin...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 7:55 PM • • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Baghdad
In a June 26 op-ed Lott claimed that gun ownership was making Iraqis safer: "Yet, despite Iraqis owning machine guns and the country still not under control, Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld pointed out that Baghdad is experiencing fewer murders...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 9:38 AM • 3 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
November 10, 2003
Category: surveys
Lots of folks have reported their results on the Political Compass. Now Chris Lightfoot has come up with a better political survey. I think it is much better than the Political Compass survey because: There aren't as many horribly...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 2:14 PM • 21 Comments • 9 TrackBacks
November 9, 2003
Category: survey
Lott is at it again. In a Tech Central Station column he claims: Over 90 percent of the time simply brandishing the weapon stops an attack. I suppose we should be glad that rather than his 98% estimate based...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 11:45 PM • • 0 TrackBacks
November 5, 2003
Category: surveys
There has been flurry of bloggers posting their results on the Political Compass Test. This test attempts to measure your political leanings on a two-dimensional scale, with a left/right axis and a libertarian/authoritarian axis. Lawrence Solum has collected some...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 1:04 AM • 31 Comments • 50 TrackBacks
