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Tim Lambert (deltoidblog AT gmail.com) is a computer scientist at the University of New South Wales.
January 30, 2004
Category: safest-means
Lott has on op-ed on gun carrying by professional athletes. As usual, he gets his facts about guns and crime wrong. Lott claims that NCVS data shows that guns are the safest means of self-protection: Take robbery or assault....
Posted by Tim Lambert at 11:16 PM • 2 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
January 26, 2004
Category: links
Kevin Drum is dismayed that the Economist has printed a letter from Lott: Contrary to your claims of the Americanisation of armed robbery in Britain, one could only hope that robbery in England and Wales was truly becoming Americanised ("You're...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 10:37 PM • 13 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: UK
Glenn Reynolds approvingly links to another poll that he claims provides More evidence that the British public is taking a tougher line on crime than the British government. Of course, Reynolds yet again fails to take notice of the...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 11:12 AM • 1 Comments • 1 TrackBacks
January 23, 2004
Category: UK
Yet another columnist has demonstrated profound ignorance of opinion polling. Scott Norvell writes about the meaningless BBC phone-in poll (discussed earlier here and here): Britain's chattering classes sure can get their knickers in a knot with the will of...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 11:05 PM • 12 Comments • 1 TrackBacks
January 22, 2004
Category: links
The Journalist's Guide to Gun Policy Scholars and Second Amendment Scholars is a site that provides journalists with a list of "credible, articulate scholars" to consult about gun policy questions. It used to contain a listing for John R. Lott...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 10:49 PM • 1 Comments • 1 TrackBacks
January 15, 2004
Category: meta
I've been nominated for another blog award. This one is for Best NSW Blog. I don't you should take such awards too seriously, but they do provide a way to find interesting blogs to read, so check them out....
Posted by Tim Lambert at 12:58 PM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: links
Lott has a post (scroll to 1/10/04 entry on his blog) on the meaningless poll that discussed earlier. Lott's headline is: A BBC Poll Shows that Most British Want a Law authorizing homeowners to use any means to defend their...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 12:53 PM • 4 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: links
Michael Peckham has an interesting post looking at Bellesiles and Lott and how they relate to other research frauds. He thinks that they might serve as examples that deter others from research fraud....
Posted by Tim Lambert at 12:41 PM • 8 Comments • 1 TrackBacks
January 9, 2004
Category: links
In a post on his blog Keith Burgess-Jackson wrote: First, studies by law professor John Lott and others show that private gun-ownership reduces crime rates. This may be counterintuitive, but it's true. There would be more crime than there...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 8:33 PM • 2 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: files
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Category: Levitt
Brad DeLong quotes the Economist on "rabidly anti-gun" Steve Levitt: If you browse through the working papers circulated by the National Bureau of Economic Research (at www.nber.org) you will find that in 2003 alone Mr Levitt wrote or co-wrote...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 12:54 PM • 35 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
January 6, 2004
Category: meta
I'm one of the nominations for best single issue blog over at Wampum's Koufax weblog awards. Google tells me that Koufax is left-arm pitcher, so translating it to cricket that's the equivalent of a Wasim Akram award. (Sorry, I...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 10:41 PM • 5 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
January 5, 2004
Category: meta
Site Meter says that I have now had 100,000 visits to this blog in just under a year. My thanks to everyone who has dropped by. It's gratifying to see such interest in my writings....
Posted by Tim Lambert at 8:36 AM • • 0 TrackBacks
January 3, 2004
Last month I detailed how Lott posted at least six and probably ten five-star reviews of his books to Amazon.com. Well, it may be that Lott isn't the only conservative author who does this. Someone posting as "A reader...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 8:01 PM • 7 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
January 2, 2004
Category: UK
Glenn Reynolds links approvingly to a post by Thomas Lifson on the results of a BBC phone-in and email poll that allowed people to propose a new law that they would like to see passed. The winning proposal was...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 11:02 PM • 20 Comments • 1 TrackBacks
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