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> "Mark Cook" <mcook@prodigy.net> wrote in message
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> > "Baxter" <lbax01.spamguard@baxcode.com> wrote in message
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> > > You do know that Dr. John Lott (or is that Mary Roth) has been
> > discredited.
> > > You're in serious disinformation territory now.  None of this is
valid.
> >
> > Prove it.

You didn't prove that top 25 counties with spoiled ballots were controlled
by Democrats and 1 with no party affiliation.

You didn't prove that if you had a Democrat Election Supervisor, that you
were 3 times more likely to have your ballot thrown out.

Since I have seen the numbers form other sources, I didn't think that you
could prove otherwise.




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> John Lott's unethical conduct
>
> John Lott is embroiled in several controversial affairs:
> * he almost certainly fabricated a mysterious survey and certainly behaved
> unethically in making claims for which he had no supporting data
> * he presented results purporting to show that "more guns" led to "less
> crime" when those results were the product of coding errors
> * he pretended to be a woman called "Mary Rosh" on the internet in order
to
> praise his own research and accuse his critics of fraud.
> * he probably was the person who anonymously accused Steve Levitt of being
> "rabidly antigun"
> http://cgi.cse.unsw.edu.au/~lambert/cgi-bin/blog/guns/Lott/links/2003/07/
>
> JOHN LOTT DEFENDS HIS LIE, CLAIMS PSYCHIC POWERS: John Lott responds to my
> complaint about citing a Baghdad murder statistic that doesn't exist.
>
> "While it might be difficult to keep track of the number of property
crimes
> or robberies these days in Iraq, presumably Rumsfeld knows whether the
> number of murders is greater or less than 200 a month."
>
> I suppose we can be grateful that Lott know longer has Mary Rosh fighting
> his battles for him. But this is still a load of crap. PRESUMABLY?
> Presumably, John Lott is now able to read the mind of Donald Rumsfeld, is
> convinced that Rumsfeld knows the murder rate in Baghdad, and knows that
> that it is higher than the murder rate in DC.
>
> Normally, when you say that X is bigger than Y, it is because you have
proof
> of both X and Y and can measure them both. It isn't because you have
> extrapolated a number for Y out of a bunch of self-serving calculations
> designed to fit your thesis.
>
> Apparently the argument for the defense is "Just because John Lott cites
an
> imaginary statistic doesn't make him a liar." Um, okay. But it doesn't
make
> him a very good academic, either.
>
http://wyethwire.blogspot.com/2003_07_01_wyethwire_archive.html#105950494756
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