Comments on: Lott v. Levitt IV http://overlawyered.com/2006/04/lott-v-levitt-iv/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=lott-v-levitt-iv Chronicling the high cost of our legal system Sun, 27 May 2012 02:04:35 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: markm http://overlawyered.com/2006/04/lott-v-levitt-iv/comment-page-1/#comment-2740 markm Fri, 21 Apr 2006 11:52:40 +0000 http://overlawyered.com/wpblog/?p=3362#comment-2740 The technical meaning of "replicate" in a refereed economic journal is irrelevant here. Lott is suing over a popular book, not a journal article. 99% of the readers will not know that "replicate" means something different to economists, let alone know what it means. In other sciences, "replicate" means to repeat the experiment and get similar results. For an attempt to replicate Lott's work on guns, that would mean getting fresh data and seeing if some reasonable method of statistical analysis (like or unlike Lott's) gave similar conclusions. What I understood <i>Freakonomics</i> to be saying is that such studies had not arrived at a statistically significant conclusion reinforcing Lott's, not that recrunching of Lott's data had indicated fraud. The technical meaning of “replicate” in a refereed economic journal is irrelevant here. Lott is suing over a popular book, not a journal article. 99% of the readers will not know that “replicate” means something different to economists, let alone know what it means.

In other sciences, “replicate” means to repeat the experiment and get similar results. For an attempt to replicate Lott’s work on guns, that would mean getting fresh data and seeing if some reasonable method of statistical analysis (like or unlike Lott’s) gave similar conclusions. What I understood Freakonomics to be saying is that such studies had not arrived at a statistically significant conclusion reinforcing Lott’s, not that recrunching of Lott’s data had indicated fraud.

]]> By: Deltoid http://overlawyered.com/2006/04/lott-v-levitt-iv/comment-page-1/#comment-2741 Deltoid Thu, 20 Apr 2006 23:45:54 +0000 http://overlawyered.com/wpblog/?p=3362#comment-2741 <strong>Lott vs Levitt: around the blogs</strong> David Glenn's article get discussed by Henry Farrell (lots of comments there), Ted Frank and King. Lott finally mentions the lawsuit on his blog. No comments there, so far.... Lott vs Levitt: around the blogs

David Glenn’s article get discussed by Henry Farrell (lots of comments there), Ted Frank and King. Lott finally mentions the lawsuit on his blog. No comments there, so far….

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