Comments on: What if the New York Times Went to SHOT Show? https://gunculture2point0.com/2020/02/26/what-if-the-new-york-times-went-to-shot-show/ Mon, 11 Jan 2021 18:27:45 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Top 10 Most Viewed Posts in 2020 – Gun Culture 2.0 https://gunculture2point0.com/2020/02/26/what-if-the-new-york-times-went-to-shot-show/comment-page-1/#comment-24335 Mon, 11 Jan 2021 18:27:45 +0000 http://gunculture2point0.wordpress.com/?p=7756#comment-24335 […] What if the New York Times Went to SHOT Show? I don’t enjoy posting about media bias, but sometimes I can’t help […]

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]]> By: Zendo Deb https://gunculture2point0.com/2020/02/26/what-if-the-new-york-times-went-to-shot-show/comment-page-1/#comment-23389 Thu, 12 Mar 2020 06:21:35 +0000 http://gunculture2point0.wordpress.com/?p=7756#comment-23389 If someone you don’t know asks you, “Do you own guns?” the only answer is “No, of course not.” And maybe even if some of the people you do know, just not very well asks you that, you should give the same answer.

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]]> By: khal spencer https://gunculture2point0.com/2020/02/26/what-if-the-new-york-times-went-to-shot-show/comment-page-1/#comment-23283 Wed, 26 Feb 2020 21:01:01 +0000 http://gunculture2point0.wordpress.com/?p=7756#comment-23283 In reply to John Richardson.

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]]> By: David Yamane https://gunculture2point0.com/2020/02/26/what-if-the-new-york-times-went-to-shot-show/comment-page-1/#comment-23282 Wed, 26 Feb 2020 20:28:08 +0000 http://gunculture2point0.wordpress.com/?p=7756#comment-23282 In reply to John Richardson.

Some people have false negative written all over them

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]]> By: John Richardson https://gunculture2point0.com/2020/02/26/what-if-the-new-york-times-went-to-shot-show/comment-page-1/#comment-23281 Wed, 26 Feb 2020 20:27:12 +0000 http://gunculture2point0.wordpress.com/?p=7756#comment-23281 I am shocked, shocked!, that people would lie to pollsters about their gun ownership. Next thing you know they will be lying to their physicians about whether they have a gun in the home.

Not that *I* would do anything like that or even associate with anyone who did.

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]]> By: David Yamane https://gunculture2point0.com/2020/02/26/what-if-the-new-york-times-went-to-shot-show/comment-page-1/#comment-23280 Wed, 26 Feb 2020 18:57:27 +0000 http://gunculture2point0.wordpress.com/?p=7756#comment-23280 In reply to khal spencer.

Nice elaborations, thanks. Statistical estimates are estimates.

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]]> By: khal spencer https://gunculture2point0.com/2020/02/26/what-if-the-new-york-times-went-to-shot-show/comment-page-1/#comment-23279 Wed, 26 Feb 2020 18:31:42 +0000 http://gunculture2point0.wordpress.com/?p=7756#comment-23279 Looking at the sawtooth pattern in the poll graph, I would surmise that this is random error in the sampling which as you say, is consistent with several percent error. I think most major polling companies and Gallup included, usually cite their uncertainties. For one recent poll on American’s confidence in elections, for example,

“Results for this Gallup poll are based on telephone interviews conducted Oct. 25-26, 2016, on the Gallup U.S. Daily survey, with a random sample of 1,011 adults, aged 18 and older, living in all 50 U.S. states and the District of Columbia. For results based on the total sample of national adults, the margin of sampling error is ±6 percentage points at the 95% confidence level. All reported margins of sampling error include computed design effects for weighting.”
https://news.gallup.com/poll/196976/update-americans-confidence-voting-election.aspx‘

And then there is systematic error, which can occur in any measurement methodology. As you say, some folks might deny having guns just as some folks, if polled, might deny wanting to vote for a particular unsavory candidate. When I sampled rocks in Central Minnesota for my dissertation, all I could find were granites because the sedimentary rocks get eroded more easily. One would not, however, assume there are no sedimentary rocks in Minnesota.

It all matters.

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]]> By: Ted Demosthenes https://gunculture2point0.com/2020/02/26/what-if-the-new-york-times-went-to-shot-show/comment-page-1/#comment-23278 Wed, 26 Feb 2020 17:50:21 +0000 http://gunculture2point0.wordpress.com/?p=7756#comment-23278 Thanks David, critical, objective thinking is greatly appreciated. Journalism should be studied for its ever-increasing decline into the mud of personal feelings, emotion, and ill-informed opinions based loosely on poorly vetted sources. Who was that said “Figures lie and Liars figure.”?

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]]> By: columbuscynic https://gunculture2point0.com/2020/02/26/what-if-the-new-york-times-went-to-shot-show/comment-page-1/#comment-23277 Wed, 26 Feb 2020 17:20:28 +0000 http://gunculture2point0.wordpress.com/?p=7756#comment-23277 In reply to columbuscynic.

“polls”
Stupid phone.

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]]> By: John Nystrom https://gunculture2point0.com/2020/02/26/what-if-the-new-york-times-went-to-shot-show/comment-page-1/#comment-23276 Wed, 26 Feb 2020 16:54:19 +0000 http://gunculture2point0.wordpress.com/?p=7756#comment-23276 David, an excellent opportunity to reach out to the media, assuming Hsu is interested in learning more about the firearms community, instead of her stereotypes of the gun community. In fact, I’ve noticed marketing to female shooters and potential shooters/hunters for most of my life, 63 years, but the focus on potential customers outside of the white male demographic has been accelerating for over two decades.

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