http://www.mentalfloss.com/blogs/archives/3297 Feel Smart Again Sun, 22 Nov 2009 13:43:17 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5 hourly 1 http://www.mentalfloss.com/blogs/archives/3297/comment-page-1#comment-5752 lee Wed, 06 Dec 2006 23:03:43 +0000 http://www.mentalfloss.com/blogs/archives/3297#comment-5752 The firearms study is ridiculous. What that study actually shows is that firearms are morelikely to be used in lower economic states, despite what the article said. Secondly the crime rates were, in most cases, higher in the non-gun owner states than in the five listed. The study might just as easily had read (if all factors had properly been taken into consideration following proper use of the scientific method rather than a skewing of evidence) the five states with the lowest gun ownership have higher stabbing, poisoning and gang related murders, accidents and suicides than the five gun states. These right-wing/left-wing studies are designed to "prove" the point they set out to make in the first place. to paraphrse Twain, there are three types of lies - Lies, Damn Lies and pseudo-scientific studies. The firearms study is ridiculous. What that study actually shows is that firearms are morelikely to be used in lower economic states, despite what the article said. Secondly the crime rates were, in most cases, higher in the non-gun owner states than in the five listed. The study might just as easily had read (if all factors had properly been taken into consideration following proper use of the scientific method rather than a skewing of evidence) the five states with the lowest gun ownership have higher stabbing, poisoning and gang related murders, accidents and suicides than the five gun states.
These right-wing/left-wing studies are designed to “prove” the point they set out to make in the first place.
to paraphrse Twain, there are three types of lies – Lies, Damn Lies and pseudo-scientific studies.

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