Brain357
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From Marvin Wolfgang......on Kleck.....and his study..
http://scholarlycommons.law.northwestern.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=6873&context=jclc
Let me read the first and last paragraphs of the commentary that I originally made, titled A Tribute to a View I Have Opposed.
The first paragraph reads:
I am as strong a gun-control advocate as can be found among the criminologists in this country. If I were Mustapha Mond of The Brave New World, I would eliminate all guns from the civilian population and maybe from the police. I hate guns-ugly, nasty instruments designed to kill people.
The last paragraph of my commentary reads as follows:
The Kleck and Gertz study impresses me for the caution the authors exercise and the elaborate nuances they examine methodologically. I do not like their conclusions that having a gun can be useful, but I cannot fault their methodology. They have tried earnestly to meet all objections in advance and have done exceedingly well.
Ah yes the one example. And even this example knows the survey was too small to be accurate:
The usual criticisms of survey research, such as that done by
Kleck and Gertz, also apply to their research. The problems of small
numbers and extrapolating from relatively small samples to the universe
are common criticism of all survey research, including theirs.