Wesley Stevenson
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1,470 appearances
54 recordings
1 series
first heard Sep 2010
last heard May 2015
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Other researchers began to question the results, and one man who did so was Professor John Donoghue, an economist and lawyer from Stanford University.
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He says that although Lott controlled for a lot of factors, he didn't agree with all of them.
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Now this may seem a little arcane, but if you change even just this controlling factor, it changes the results and makes them much less significant, and in some cases proves the opposite point, showing violent crime, particularly robbery with guns, rises when right-to-carry laws are introduced.
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Another factor is the time frame you use.
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Professor Donoghue also ran the figures over a longer time frame and saw the effects of the laws diminish.
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John Lott ran a longer but different time frame and he said it backed his original research.
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And herein lies the problem.
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When the National Academy of Sciences looked at the literature back in 2004, including John Lott's work and John Donoghue's research, they concluded that it was not possible to determine that there was a causal link between the passage of right to carry laws and crime rates.
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The gun lobby in the US and John Lott himself criticised the panel for being too anti-gun.
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And this is the further problem.
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Even if it was proved that more guns meant more crime, it probably wouldn't make a lot of difference to the levels of gun control, as Professor Polsby points out.
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So into the void left by inconclusive figures steps politics and conjecture.
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Wesley Stevenson.
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More or Less · Has clamping down on drugs made the Tour de France slower? (WS) · 21 Jul 2012
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Well, yeah, we could look at speed.
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So if we were to look at the speed for climbing Alpe d'Huez, one of the toughest climbs on the Tour, you can see that in the late 1990s, this was being climbed in less than 38 minutes.
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And last year, it was climbed in 41 minutes and 21 seconds.
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So it's getting slower.
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But one of the problems we have is it doesn't feature in this year's race.
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Yeah, so there's another measure which might make a better comparison, according to Dr Ross Tucker, who's with the Sports Science Institute at the University of Cape Town.
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What you need to do is you need to take into account the weight of the rider and figure out the power-to-weight ratio.
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