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Tim Lambert (deltoidblog AT gmail.com) is a computer scientist at the University of New South Wales.
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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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Category: Lott
Kevin Drum observes that Lott evaded the question of whether correcting the hundreds of errors that he made eliminated his results. (And Lott's son, Maxim, seems to have posted near the end of the comments.) After Drum posted, Lott...
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