How news organizations, including this one, unintentionally misinformed the public on guns

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How news organizations, including this one, unintentionally misinformed the public on guns


Here is the unfortunate story of how a couple of teams of researchers and a whole bunch of news organizations, including this one, unintentionally but thoroughly misinformed the public.

It all started in 2015, when University of New Hampshire sociology professor David Finkelhor and two colleagues published a study called “Prevalence of Childhood Exposure to Violence, Crime, and Abuse.” They gathered data by conducting phone interviews with parents and kids around the country.

The Finkelhor study included a table showing the percentage of kids “witnessing or having indirect exposure” to different kinds of violence in the past year. The figure under “exposure to shooting” was 4 percent.

Those words — exposure to shooting — are going to become a problem in just a minute.

I hardly think the reporting was unintentional

 

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The 'study' was absurd when it came out.

 

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The real problem here is that the progressives will never be quiet about gun control until they can make the CDC do public health studies on gun violence. They've been harping on this for years now. But the problem is that a CDC researcher admitted to using the fraudulent statistic with no apologies.