Archive for January, 2003
Posted in January 28th, 2003
It is definitely going to be money versus organization in the Democratic Primary, the Sun-Times reports Hull is willing to spend $40 million of his own money. If he doesn’t get Mell/Blagojevich backing this looks like the second grounding of Al Hofeld minus the later personal problems.
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Posted in January 28th, 2003
Washington Whispers is reporting that Hizzoner is considering a run at Fitzgerald. I don’t buy it. Running Chicago is his thing and there are no natural torch bearers to hand it to right now. My guess is US News got it confused with Daley actively seeking a strong challenger to Fitzgerald.
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Posted in January 28th, 2003
The question John Lott won’t answer is why do a survey incapable of providing valid and reliable results for the question he is trying to ask. Lott has been shopping around the number that 98% of DGU (Defensive Gun Uses) occur without a shot being fired. This is significantly different than the results of others […]
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Posted in January 27th, 2003
Rich Miller at the Capitol Fax reports: "GREEN" ENERGY BILL COMING Crain’s Chicago Business reported over the weekend that a bill will be introduced soon to require the state’s electric utilities to purchase a portion of their power from renewable sources. The bill, which will be sponsored by Sen. Pat Welch (D-Peru), will force electric […]
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Posted in January 27th, 2003
From John Lott: Here is a suggestion. If you have a question about whether something was done in the survey, it might make more sense to ask the question whether it was done rather than asserting that it must not be true. I had simply asked James to write up specific points, particularly how the […]
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Posted in January 27th, 2003
Josh Marshall mentions the strange notion that the Democrats are the only ones highly dependent upon their base of support.
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Posted in January 27th, 2003
So calls to all states were done in the second survey between 7 and 9 PM Eastern? That’ll give some sampling experts facial ticks!
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Posted in January 27th, 2003
Lindgren says that IRB is largely ignored by those at Chicago Law. That isn’t too surprising I guess, but what is disturbing about Lott’s case is he didn’t take even rudimentary efforts to protect respondent privacy. Students conducting surveys in dorm rooms is generally a bad practice.
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Posted in January 27th, 2003
First, clearly I was confused on the categorizations of variables. His response makes it clear how one gets to 36. Mea Culpa. Second, he has released tax records, though it is impossible to garner any useful information from them as to whether a survey was conducted. Conveniently, as with any other direct evidence of the […]
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Posted in January 26th, 2003
Here is the survey and descriptive material John Lott passed along: D. Survey on Defensive Gun Use Below is the survey that was used to identify the rate of defensive gun use. Hello, my name is _______, and I am a student at ________ working on a very brief survey on crime. The survey should […]
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Posted in January 26th, 2003
Lott responds to the previous posts in e-mail. I’ll post it in its entirety out of fairness and address the issues in later posts: My responses: I have already discussed these issues, but it is obvious that I need to repeat what I have previously sent out. I have previously posted the survey questions used […]
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Posted in January 24th, 2003
I couldn’t tell you and I’m wondering if Lott could. Ted Barlow puts the question to Jane Galt whether Lott has been vindicated. There are severarl implausible items in Lott’s defense. As I mentioned earlier, in my real life I’ve lost data to conference papers. That is a bit different than this case, but I’m […]
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Posted in January 24th, 2003
Calpundit points out the demographic questions that Lott asks and I’m even more confused. Lott claims there are 36 categories of demographics he uses to weight the respondents. The demographics collected include area code, gender, race and age by decade. And this is a real question–what are the 36 categories. I don’t have the book […]
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Posted in January 24th, 2003
Consider this a catch-all for interesting stuff: Eric Zorn has been crusading on the Death Penalty along with the investigative journalists Mills and Armstrong. For those who watched CNN’s coverage of Ryan’s Commutation speech, Zorn was the guy standing next to Mills when they interviewed him. Zorn had a bemused look at his less well […]
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Posted in January 24th, 2003
Often someone as entrenched as Richard Daley would simply shrug off Chicago’s high murder rate and keep on keep on winning elections. Much like his much praised effort to improve the Chicago Public Schools, he pushing for a significant change in the deployment of police in Chicago. As the Tribune points out this is a […]
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