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When you account for every country that has available data, there is no correlation at all. If anything a very weak negative correlation arises. https://medium
by AmericanChopper 8y ago
When you account for every country that has available data, there is no correlation at all. If anything a very weak negative correlation arises.
https://medium.com/@bjcampbell/everybodys-lying-about-the-link-between-gun-ownership-and-homicide-1108ed400be5 https://medium.com/@bjcampbell/everybodys-lying-about-the-li...
- Lewton 8y agoa more nuanced perspective http://slatestarcodex.com/2016/01/06/guns-and-states/ http://slatestarcodex.com/2016/01/06/guns-and-states/
- AmericanChopper 8y agoI’m not sure if picking random confounding variables until you get the results you want is more nuanced than looking at the raw statistics.
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- 24gttghh 8y agoThat is literally what the article you linked does by ignoring suicide statistics, which is a whopping 2/3'rds of the gun-related deaths in the US.
- aalleavitch 8y agoThis is excessively not science.
- pandasun 8y agoMind elaborating on why it's not science? Also, if you can provide better science, that would really add to the discussion instead of an empty comment like that.
- aalleavitch 8y agoThis, for instance, is science: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26905895 https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26905895 Note how it is a meta-analysis of 130 actual studies conducted by researchers at actual institutions aimed at establishing causal relationships and not a bunch of unrelated crime statistics pulled off of wikipedia and scattered sources and dropped into an excel spreadsheet.