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In reply to the discussion: In Medical Triumph, Homicides Fall Despite Soaring Gun Violence [View all]DanTex
(20,709 posts)37. Again, you can't replicate county-by-county analysis based on aggregate data.
Trust me, if you can't understand that, you really don't understand anything about this study. Yes, you do need to look county-by-county. If not, the authors of the study wouldn't have bothered to do that. The national trend only gives you one datapoint.
Also, the data was not cherry-picked -- they looked at the 200 largest counties by population. But keep telling yourself "the studies are all biased"...
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In Medical Triumph, Homicides Fall Despite Soaring Gun Violence [View all]
SecularMotion
Dec 2012
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I couldn't read it either, but on the front page it's now labelled as "subscriber content"
petronius
Dec 2012
#4
That's the part I've always wondered about - these attempted murders should be showing
petronius
Dec 2012
#3
The one thing that is crystal clear is that the NRA bots will believe anything...
DanTex
Dec 2012
#23
LOL. I love it when scientifically ignorant pro-gunners take on the peer reviewed research.
DanTex
Dec 2012
#26
Do you understand the results are based on county-by-county analysis and not national trends?
DanTex
Dec 2012
#33
But in aggregate those counties experienced a significant decrease in homicides.
hack89
Dec 2012
#36