Kelly Roskam of the Johns Hopkins Center for Gun Violence Solutions discusses a Supreme Court case that will decide if a federal law prohibiting possession of firearms by people subject to domestic violence protection orders is constitutional

  • Jeremy [Iowa]
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    1 year ago

    This is a lot of splitting of hairs on your part.

    I’m not sure I’d consider criticism of Johns Hopkins tendency to make assertions not supported by underlying sources and tendency to use sources with glaring methodological flaws and myriad biases to be merely splitting hairs - the distinctions highlighted are both substantial and serious.

    Are you a social scientist and a statistician? If not, I will defer to the experts on this.

    I am a software engineer. Analysis is my bread and butter.

    You’ll note my criticism isn’t of their ability to compute statistics, but rather the methodology used for identifying data points for consideration having flaws skewing outputs and for their survey being an exercise in confirmation bias.

    Feel free to defer to others - however, please understand you’re also waiving your right to reference or discuss this study when you decide you aren’t going to bother to understand it and what it’s actually stating. I’m not comfortable opting to skip the critical thinking phase, but you do you.

    The amount of unreported domestic abuse dwarfs the amount that is reported.

    Nifty. I’m not sure how the homicides would be under reported, though - given that’s the subject.

    Also, solely focusing on deaths is a misnomer. Being threatened by an abuser with a gun is rather common and also detrimental to the mental health of the victim.

    You may have meant methodological flaw.

    Either way, given the subject was deaths as raised by Johns Hopkins, feel free to provide them such feedback.

    I’m sure they’ll get right on it.