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by JCzynski 3176 days ago
I know her personally, and she's a better statistician than you.

Also, I've independently done a lot of the same research, going to primary sources. It's correct.

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Really? Do you also know lisper personally?

I don't have a horse in the race, but if we are doing argument by authority, I would trust the CS PhD and JPL researcher more than the blogger with a PoliSci degree undergrad who dabbled in data visualisation and SPSS and thinks she is an authority.

To say nothing of the fact that one of the reasons I think she might be a shill for the NRA is that I don't think that she's stupid.