0 votes
by (1.3k points)

We all understand that quitting addiction is no plain sailing, since you have been using it and it is also inculcated in your daily routine and cutting off anything from your daily routine is a tedious task. It requires a complete self-control and a focussed mind. But once you succeed, you can re-shape your own life. One of the best remedy or medication to stop drinking alcohol & to stop smoking is the complete blend of natural herbs called Addiction Killer. Addiction Killer is a big achievement in the field of Ayurvedic medicine to quit smoking & to quit alcohol. It is 100% Herbal medication to stop drinking & to stop smoking. Addiction Killer is a medicine having NO Side-Effects which can be given to an addict secretly without his knowledge as well. This unique feature doesn’t let the addict to know that he has been given any medication to stop drinking or smoking. After some days depending upon particular body type, the addict will lose his interest in drinking & smoking. The Ayurvedic medicine to cure alcohol/cigarette addiction makes changes in the taste buds of the addict, hence he starts disliking the odour & taste of Alcohol & cigarettes. ᠎A​rt ic le was gen erat᠎ed by ​GSA ​Content  Generator DE​MO᠎!


Epistemic status: I think I probably wrung the right conclusions out of this evidence, but this isn’t the only line of evidence bearing on the broader gun control issue and all I can say is what it’s consistent with. From a Vox article on America’s Gun Problem, Explained: "On Wednesday, it happened again: There was a mass shooting - this time, in San Bernardino, California. Then it goes on to say that "more guns mean more gun deaths, period. The research on this is overwhelmingly clear. …then uses the graph as a lead in to talk about active shooter situations, gun-homicide relationships, and outrage over gun massacres. Did you notice that the axis of this graph says "gun deaths", and that this is a totally different thing from gun murders? Gun deaths are a combined measure of gun homicides and gun suicides. Here is a graph of guns vs. And here is a graph of guns vs. The relationship between gun ownership and homicide is weak (and appears negative), the relationship between gun ownership and suicide is strong and positive.


The entire effect Vox highlights in their graph is due to gun suicides, but they are using it to imply conclusions about gun homicides. This is why you shouldn’t make a category combining two unlike things. I am not the first person to notice this. The Washington Examiner makes the same criticism of Vox’s statistics that I do. And Robert VerBruggen of National Review does the same analysis decomposing gun deaths into suicides and homicides, and like me finds no correlation with homicides. German Lopez of Vox responds here. He argues that VerBruggen can’t just do a raw uncontrolled correlation of state gun ownership with state murder rates without adjusting for confounders. This is true, although given that Vox has done this time and time again for months on end and all VerBruggen is doing is correctly pointing out a flaw in their methods, it feels kind of like an isolated demand for rigor. So let’s look at the more-carefully-controlled studies.


Lopez suggests the ones at the Harvard Injury Control Research Center, which has done several statistical analyses of gun violence. We start with MA&H 2002. This study does indeed conclude that higher gun ownership rates are correlated with higher murder rates after adjusting for confounders. But suspiciously, it in fact finds that higher gun ownership rates are correlated with higher murder rates even before adjusting for confounders, something that we already found wasn’t true! Furthermore, even after adjusting for Artifical Intelligence confounders it finds in several age categories that higher gun ownership rates are correlated with higher non-gun homicide rates (eg the rates at which people are murdered by knives or crowbars or whatever) at p less than 0.001. This is really suspicious! Unless guns are exerting some kind of malign pro-murder influence that makes people commit more knife murders, some sort of confounding influence has remained. The study gets its murder rate numbers from the National Center for Health Statistics, which seems like a trustworthy source.


It gets its gun ownership numbers from… ’s interesting, it doesn’t actually have any gun ownership numbers. It says that there is no way to figure out what percent of people in a given state own guns, so as a proxy for gun ownership numbers, AI Art it will use a measure called FS/S, ie the number of firearm suicides in a state divided by the total number of suicides. This makes some intuitive sense. Among people who want to commit suicide, suppose a fixed percent prefer to use guns compared to other methods. In that case, the determining factor for whether or not they use a gun will be whether or AI not they have a gun. Hospitals diligently record statistics about suicide victims including method of suicide, so if our assumption holds this should be a decent proxy for gun ownership within a state. There’s only one problem - I checked this against an actual measure of gun ownership per state that came out after this study was published - the CDC asking 200,000 people how many guns they had as part of the Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System Survey - and the FS/S measure fails.

Your answer

Your name to display (optional):
Privacy: Your email address will only be used for sending these notifications.
Welcome to FluencyCheck, where you can ask language questions and receive answers from other members of the community.
...