Re: violent crime up
On Jun 15, 2006, at 10:35 AM, Jordan Hayes wrote:
Doug admits finally:
That’s not what I’m saying.
Maybe that’s not what you’re meaning but it is what you’re
saying …
A sample of what I said:
On Jun 13, 2006, at 9:09 PM, Jordan Hayes wrote:
Switzerland is another frequent counter-example.
I’m always troubled by ‘counter examples’ to flawed points.
There’s no counter-example to the claim that the combination of
American “culture” and millions of guns and gun owners results in
10,000 murders/year.It’s just bad statistics.
How’s that? You have some examples that show both similiarities and
differences. Similarity: lots of guns. Differences: on the
dependent side, murders; on the independent side, imperial history,
frontier culture, inequality, racial heterogeneity… You control
for the similarities and try to see if the dissimilarities are
significant. That sounds like standard stats to me.