(January 13, 2023 at 9:13 am)GUBU Wrote:(January 12, 2023 at 2:27 pm)FlatAssembler Wrote: You think Gary Kleck's methodology is bad? Well, explain to me why do you think the methodology of the study I linked to, estimating that vaccines saved 300'000 lives in 2021 in the US alone, is good? Do you even understand their methodology? I personally don't.
No I don't think it is bad, it demonstrably is bad. None of his findings are replicable.
But... his findings have been replicated:
Quote:https://www.owl232.net/papers/guncontrol.htm
Fifteen surveys, excluding the one discussed in the following paragraph, have been conducted since 1976, yielding estimates of between 760,000 and 3.6 million defensive gun uses per year, the average estimate being 1.8 million.
