Eegore wrote on 08/05/24 at 11:37:01: My experience is they say the data is inaccurate. It's not reliable becuase it's provided by official government numbers, NRA, etc.
But the lack of dead bodies from gun violence seems to be ignored.
90% of the population have guns, = less gun deaths.
Lower % of the population have guns = more gun deaths.
Sounds like that experiment you were talking about. Seems that one could use the number of actual dead bodies to predict if a city has high-gun control or low-gun control measures.
Another question though is how critical should we be of counter-evidence? We can't deny mass-shootings happen, so should we be critical of evidence like mass-shooting numbers in other countries? Or shooting death numbers in areas where the numbers are drastically inaccurate. Like saying hundreds of "mass shootings" happen annually and there's video footage of shootings that happened outside of a year, or "annual" parameter. Should that be scrutinized or just accepted as part of the gun-control's point of guns=violence?
I apologize. I was being defensive. And, it Is that Experiment I was talking about. The thing is, most people don't See the data and Observed Reality as the data generated from a Laboratory Experiment. Just like college chemistry, and every endeavor I've gone at, observation is The First Rule of Science. If you're a mechanic, you're operating scientifically. Or you're getting your AssKikkt.
Being observant matters. When we had to take a test tube with three elements in it and figure out what they were, I looked at all of the tubes, and looked at the bottom shelf of the roll about. Jars,labeled Jars,, that were used to make up the tubes. I grabbed a tube with three layers,as they all had, but I looked for three dissimilar layers, looked at the jars,wrote the names, went and tested for those. Bingo.
Grades came out. Dr. Taylor asked
Who used the jars??
I was the only one.
You Can pay attention and be deceived.
But the odds of figuring it out, whatever IT is, is pretty slim if you're not paying attention.