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To: Puppage

“We can say confidently that waiting period laws reduce gun homicides”

There are no contemporaneous control and experimental groups. Dodgy ‘science.’


8 posted on 10/17/2017 5:22:34 AM PDT by relictele
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To: relictele

Wouldn’t one would expect to see that word “confidently” quantified with some sort of numbers? I vaguely recall that there used be numerical values for levels of confidence and margins of error in statistics.


15 posted on 10/17/2017 5:33:08 AM PDT by Bob (Damn, the democrats haven't been this upset since Republicans freed their slaves.)
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To: relictele

Worse than dodgy. With a background in statistics, if given any two numbers, I can “prove” anything I want to. Context and definitions always matter.


18 posted on 10/17/2017 5:42:42 AM PDT by Pecos (A Constitutional republic shouldnÂ’t need to hold its collective breath in fear of lawyers.)
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