Julian Sanchez suggests that if Lott really got the 98% from his survey, then by marrying the 2.5 million Kleck DGU estimate with the 98% brandishing number, Lott is indulging in cherry-picking the numbers most favourable to his position from different surveys. Well, in this case I don't think that Lott is cherry picking. In statements before May 1999, Lott would say that there were 2.5 million DGUs (Kleck's DGU number) with 98% of them involving brandishing. After May 1999 (which was when he first claimed that the 98% came from his own survey) Lott switched to saying that there were 2 million DGUs (Lott's DGU number) with 98% of them involving brandishing. The logical explanation of this is not that he quit cherry-picking in May 1999, but that before May 1999 he believed that the 98% came from Kleck's survey. Now maybe he did a survey in 1997 that coincidently came up with 98% brandishing, matching the number he thought came from Kleck, but this seems like to much of a coincidence to be plausible.