New Survey of Gun Ownership Shows Bias Before Publication

By Dean Weingarten

By Dean Weingarten

Arizona – -(Ammoland.com)- A large online survey of gun ownership has been done by researchers at Harvard and Northeastern Universities. It is not expected to be published until 2017. Some preliminary results have been released, but only to two publications.

The choice of those publications is highly instructive of the motives of the researchers. The publications are The Trace, funded by Michael Bloomberg to promote citizen disarmament in the United States, and The Guardian, the British publication that is highly antagonistic to widespread gun ownership and the Second Amendment. From theguardian.com:

The unpublished Harvard/Northeastern survey result summary, obtained exclusively by the Guardian and the Trace, estimates that America’s gun stock has increased by 70m guns since 1994. At the same time, the percentage of Americans who own guns decreased slightly from 25% to 22%.

The lead author of the survey is Dr. Deborah Azrael. In a Salon interview in 2015, she revealed a number of preconceptions that could contribute to selection bias in the survey, the questions asked, or interpretation of the results. From salon.com:

“What we know is that if a woman is going to …Read the Rest

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