Statistical Malpractice – ‘Firearm Availability/Violence
Leehan88
Member posted 09-20-2002 10:54 PM
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It’s a little long, but worth the read. A few quotes:
“Statistics are not science. They may show correlations, but they cannot prove cause- and-effect relationships because of the large amounts of variance and myriad numbers of confounding factors.”
“In other words, this published gun (control) study is an example of politically driven propaganda, result oriented research with preordained, biased conclusions, which can only be characterized as junk science”.
John Lott can give some lessons here. http://www.newsmax.com/archives/articles/2002/3/24/142640.shtml