I won't even take the easy shots from you.
What flaws do you see in his study and conclusions?
Remember, he is a professional and highly trained in his art. He is obviously discerning things far beyond what you and I are capable of.
Website has a map that adds even more "duh!" to the obvious he is missing.
I was forced to excerpt it due to size.
The entire article will start your weekend with a laugh and confidence in ultimate victory......because the educated elite in the opposition are morons.
The PhD may not be stupid, but he is blind.
Whatever they pay this guy....they shouldn't.
It's not a matter of if but when.
IOW, Americans (actually mostly American men) commit suicide using a gun because one is available. If it were not available, the suicide method would change but probably not the result.
What has everyone got against suicide?
I’d Fisk that article all the way down, but it would use up the Internet. Would make an excellent case study for a Logic 101 class though. “science Daily” indeed!
TC
Any beginning Sociology textbook will debunk this.
The earliest Sociologist who studied suicide, Emile Durckheim, recognized that suicide is higher is sparsely populated areas, where people have fewer opportunities to bond with their neighbors. Sparsely populated areas are usually rural, and have more conservative tendencies.
It has nothing to do with church membership, or gun ownership. In fact, church membership inhibits social deviance.
The counties where Obama won have had the most mass shootings; Pima Co, Arapahoe and Adams counties, Fairfield County, and Milwaukee County
Whew! I thought this researcher had found us out, but i don’t see it in Augustine’s study.
Y’all KNOW it’s only a matter of time before they find about all the Russian Roulette parties we conservatives are so fond of having, don’t you? So try extra hard to keep it on the downlow, aight?!
“The PhD may not be stupid, but he is blind.”
The first question you ask your customer is “What are you trying to prove?” Then, you craft your work to answer that question to the customer’s satisfaction. That way you get repeat business. If you tell the truth not only won’t it get published, but you’ll never got his business again.
Bering a PhD. is a business proposition, not for science.
For example, let's just take the first 3 states mentioned, who are obviously mentioned first because they have the most significance, right?
The "average" rate is 11.82 per 100,000 residents (top of 2nd, bottom of 3rd quartiles). The very highest must be the 20.08 mentioned.
So let's suppose that we calculate what it would take to move the very "worst" states into the "below average" group, or say from 20.08 to 11.81 (and in fact only one of the 3 could have that highest number anyway)
State / Population 2010 / suicides if 20.08 / suicides if 11.81 / Difference AK / 710,231 / 142 / 83 / 59 MT / 989,415 / 198 / 116 / 82 WY / 563,626 / 113 / 66 / 47 total of 3 / 2,262,000 / 453 / 265 / 188
And so, we can see that if a grand total of 188 fewer people in 3 states had committed suicide*, this study would be absolutely undercut and no left-wing conclusion would even be possible.
(*) and do we know that the years 2000-2006 that were used were NOT cherry-picked to match the predetermined conclusion? Sounds like global shooting to me.
The entire article is a publish or perish extrapolation imagination.
That was fun.
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If true, why exactly would the libtards care?
Conservatives kill themselves. Only a few.
Liberals/Progressives kill others. By the thousands.
End of argument.
And you know what comes after that.
Imagine the bottom cartoon aimed against blacks or Hispanics. The "cartoonist" would be fired and exiled. But white conservative Christians are fair game for the liberal hate campaign, getting their base ready for pogroms or worse.
The U.S. ranks 34th in the world in sucide rate per 100k. There’s quite a few socialist or severe gun restriction countries ahead of the U.S. Bogus study. Like if someone wanted to commit suicide, they’d only do it with a gun. Complete and utter bovine excrement.
Damn straight! Give these pukes from "Science Daily" something to think about while they spew their propaganda.
They should ban carrots.
Every single person who has eaten a carrot has died.....eventually.
The left favors suicide last I checked.
They just don’t like the competition. Surprised they didn’t call them scabs.