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Category: Kellermann
Kellermann's studies on guns frequently get criticized by people who do not seem to have read them. The latest to do so is Michael Krauss, who writes Notwithstanding all this data, the press gave extraordinary publicity to a 1993...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 1:26 AM • 15 Comments •
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: safest-means
A 1998 Lott op-ed called "The Cold, Hard Facts About Guns" has been getting some blogspace attention, with links from Margi Lowry, Joshua Claybourn and pecksnif. pecksnif, apparently unaware of Mary Rosh, even asserts: unlike Michael A. Bellesiles, who also...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 10:40 PM • 2 Comments •
Category: Kellermann
After reading my posting yesterday, Alan Schussman was able to get Kellermann's data in seven seconds and wonders Evidence. Right there. Data. Available. How do people get away this this crap? At least Moody admitted that Kellermann released his...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 11:14 PM • 5 Comments •
Category: Kellermann
gzuckier explains, in detail, what is wrong with Lott's criticism of Kellermann. For some reason, Kellermann's work seems to provoke badly flawed criticism. In another posting gzuckier demolishes three other critiques. In an earlier posting I noted that a critique...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 11:14 PM • •
Category: Kellermann
Glenn Reynolds comments on the CNSNews article. Despite Ayres and Donohue's best efforts, Reynolds is all agnostic on the Lott question, but fortunately he has an opinion on the study by Ludwig and Cook (who Reynolds calls "antigun researchers"): What's...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 11:14 PM • •
Category: Kellermann
Since Kellermann had released his data when that paragraph was written, the part I left out was irrelevant. David Friedman writes: From your point of view, what is the story about his data? The story I thought I had seen...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 11:47 AM • •
Category: Kellermann
Mary Woods wrote: Kellermann also used a control case study, limiting his cases to the following criteria; "Any death ruled a homicide was included, regardless of the method used. Assault related injuries that were not immediately fatal were included if...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 3:27 AM • •
Category: Kellermann
circe wrote: In homes with guns the homicide of a household member is three times more likely to occur than in homes without guns. New England Journal 1993;329.1084-1091. David Friedman writes: You may also have noticed that the death rate...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 4:02 AM • •
Category: Kellermann
Lott grossly misrepresents Kellermann's study. He states that "they fail to report that in only 8 of these 444 homicide cases could it be established that the gun involved had been kept in the home." Kellermann et al do indeed...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 11:05 AM • •
