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Upvoted and agreed, that's a reasonable complaint. Can you provide sources that illustrate the absence of correlation after dividing the dataset? I haven't ye
by jka 4y ago
Upvoted and agreed, that's a reasonable complaint. Can you provide sources that illustrate the absence of correlation after dividing the dataset?
I haven't yet, although I did find this publication from Boston University positive correlation between increased gun ownership and increased non-stranger homicide rates: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4167105/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4167105/
- Acrobatic_Road 4y agoThis post basically explains the bait-and-switch being used. https://hwfo.substack.com/p/everybodys-lying-about-the-link-between?s=r https://hwfo.substack.com/p/everybodys-lying-about-the-link-... The post also questions how studies like the one you linked are measuring gun ownership rate. Every reliable study uses % of suicides with guns as a proxy for gun ownership rates. RAND notes the same thing: "A fundamental limitation for all of the studies is the lack of direct measures of gun prevalence. All of the authors use FS/S as a proxy for gun prevalence" https://www.rand.org/research/gun-policy/analysis/essays/firearm-prevalence-violent-crime.html https://www.rand.org/research/gun-policy/analysis/essays/fir... https://www.rand.org/research/gun-policy/analysis/essays/firearm-prevalence-violent-crime.html https://www.rand.org/research/gun-policy/analysis/essays/fir...