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This seems like statistical cherry picking -- (link)

Posted by ty97 Apr 11 '16, 11:21

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https://twitter.com/danmericaCNN/status/719589958269472768 (twitter.com)

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It's Virginia followed by NC, SC and Pennsylvania. -- (link) - Krusty Apr 11, 11:28 10
- Vermont is on the list but not in the top 10. -- nm - Krusty Apr 11, 11:29 9
  - note she said "per capita". Which is why I called it cherry picking - ty97 Apr 11, 11:30 8
    - Completely. It's a useless addition to the information about where the guns come from. - Krusty Apr 11, 11:32 6
      - 55 is not an insubstantial number when the highest is only 395 -- (edited) - the brain Apr 11, 11:35 1
        
        I respected this post more when it was made by cat friends -- nm - crash davis Apr 11, 11:36
      - I don't think it is actually. Of course you're going to have fewer guns sold in VT than in VA but it may show patterns like straw buyers. - spamlet Apr 11, 11:34
      - Well it's not useless. She had a very specific use behind adding the words :) - ty97 Apr 11, 11:34 1
        
        It's useless in that it doesn't matter how populous a state is in the discussion of where guns come from. It's useful for a politician - Krusty Apr 11, 11:36
      - with vermont cheddar cheese -- nm - decline Apr 11, 11:34
    - I want cherry pie -- nm - decline Apr 11, 11:31
Vermonsters -- nm - Max Apr 11, 11:26
i would want to see absolute numbers to know more -- nm - the brain Apr 11, 11:24 4
- Based on gun tracing Vermont was responsible for 55 guns. Virginia was responsible for 395. - Krusty Apr 11, 11:34 3
  - It's a different way of looking at the data. And Bernie isn't, or hasn't been, terribly strong on gun control. - TWuG Apr 11, 11:40 1
    - It could just be that Virginia has more stores willing to sell guns to people that shouldn't be buying them. No? - Krusty Apr 11, 11:45
  - Becuase Virginia is about 13x larger... - Will Hunting Apr 11, 11:35
Oh thank God -- finally, something we can't possibly argue about on ST. -- nm - ReluctantCynic Apr 11, 11:23 14
- That was your distraction so you could make your getaway, fool! -- nm - ty97 Apr 11, 11:30 1
  - *facepalm* -- nm - ReluctantCynic Apr 11, 11:31
- I had no idea my post about that woman would cause firestorm. - MDH Apr 11, 11:25 11
  - It's the usual ST kerfuffle that arises completely out of the blue. A side-effect of limited communication. - ReluctantCynic Apr 11, 11:30 2
    - Well said. -- nm - Krusty Apr 11, 11:40
    - or culture, if you will -- nm - JaxSean Apr 11, 11:35
  - I went away for just a little while, was like "why did the board roll so fast?" and see you have a 78 post thread - crash davis Apr 11, 11:26 3
    - we used to have a designation for 100-response threads, but it's escaping me now -- nm - ML Apr 11, 11:28 2
      - a Cappie -- nm - Beaker Apr 11, 11:28
      - cappie -- nm - Epiphany Apr 11, 11:28
  - it is not really a firestorm. -- nm - groiny Apr 11, 11:25 3
    - Well, it was a little flaming... -- nm - TWuG Apr 11, 11:26 2
      - heh -- nm - JaxSean Apr 11, 11:28
      - *giggling* -- nm - Epiphany Apr 11, 11:27

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