You found your source.
You found your source.
Yes I did. I feel very confident using that quote now. Professor Tom Smith is one of the two authors who started all the “bear spray is more effective than firearms” nonsense.
The two studies commonly cited to show this do nothing of the sort. They use completely different criteria for success. Firearm cases are cherry picked so badly the authors say the percentages would be better, if they had used numerous other cases available to them.
Cases that counted as successes for spray would not be counted at all for firearms.
You have to carefully read both studies to see all the statistical legerdemain going on.
The biggest trick is using the two studies as if they studied the same thing, when they are wildly different.
The authors refuse to release their data sets. This is what passes for science in the days of “climate change” alarmism.