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An Arguement for Using Statistics

May 31, 2008 – 11:30 pm

In my, now discontinued, debate about gun control Andy Skelton he argued against using statistics. Somehow people try to assert that using statistics that have no scientific backing (ie “the voice of the people” or “my accounting of the world”) is okay to use while the geeks trying to accurately account for things are just misguided.

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Why Do Gun Control Arguments Boil Down to Silly Analogies

May 26, 2008 – 10:11 pm

I read a quote on Casey Bisson’s blog of a quote from Andy Skelton’s blog. It went like this: “Gun control is like trying to reduce drunk driving by making it tougher for sober people to own cars.”
A more proper analog would be that gun control is like trying to make it harder for drunk [...]

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