More Guns, Less Crime hypothesis: still dead
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A new paper attempts to revive the "More Guns, Less Crime" hyptothesis but ends up refuting it even more thoroughly.
Posted by Tim Lambert at 1:38 PM • 271 Comments •
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More Guns Less Crime:
Alex Robson's ignorance
Category: More Guns Less Crime
You may recall how Alex Robson demonstrated his ignorance of basic statistics and of climate research. Now he has written an op-ed in Sydney's Daily Telegraph where he claims that there is no research at all that contradicts John Lott:...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 12:03 PM • 10 Comments •
Lempert on common sense and Lott
Category: More Guns Less Crime
Richard Lempert comments on why he found Lott's results implausible when they first came out:...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 11:27 AM • 2 Comments •
Yet another attempt by Lott to rewrite history
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I've discovered another one of John Lott's attempts to rewrite history. Read on. Lott has written a response to Kevin Drum's summary of Lott's model changing antics. Here's Drum: 1. Lott and two coauthors produced a statistical model ("Model 1")...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 12:53 PM • 6 Comments •
Lott on workplace carry
Category: More Guns Less Crime
Lott and Dabney have an op-ed in the Washington Times on concealed handguns in the workplace. As usual, Lott misrepresents the state of current research on firearms. Lott and Dabney write: Indeed, international data as well as data from across...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 1:59 PM • 8 Comments •
Lott libels Donohue
Category: More Guns Less Crime
On his blog Lott has a sequence of postings telling a story of how the University of Chicago Federalist Society tried to organize a debate between himself and John Donohue, but Donohue kept backing out. What really happened bears little...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 2:12 PM • 13 Comments • 1 TrackBacks
Discussion on Lott in 1996
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In 1996 we were discussing Lott's "More Guns, Less Crime" paper on the firearmsreg mailing list. I've posted my comments on my blog as entries for August 1996....
Posted by Tim Lambert at 1:29 AM • 2 Comments •
NAS responds to Lott’s attack
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The NAS has responded to Lott's attack on their panel on firearms research. I'm posting their whole letter: A Lott of misinformation The recent column by John Lott about the National Research Council's project and report on improving scientific...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 10:33 PM • 2 Comments •
Specification tests
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One of the disagreements between Lott and the NAS panel is on the question of whether the models fit the data. Joel Horowitz explains the problem in Appendix D of the report. For people who don't like equations, I'll...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 12:05 AM • 10 Comments •
Paranoia soul destroyer
Category: More Guns Less Crime
Lott has some more comments on the NAS panel report on firearms research. (Also posted at the Volokh Conspiracy.) Lott adds to his earlier claims that the panel was biased with this: In fact, the panel apparently originated with...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 8:35 PM • 3 Comments •
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