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She does have a degree in political science – there definitely are political scientists who get seriously into statistical methods. Moreover, I'd humbly suggest that this topic is dead-on for someone with a political science background. Moreover, given her connection to fivethirtyeight and the fact this work is on fivethirtyeight.com ( https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/gun-deaths/ ) which itself has a solid reputation for talking about statistics, I think this work has some credibility, at first blush.