The theory of shrinkage and forced fits, with tabulated data and examples from practice

БЂњYou wouldnБЂ™t know that he was a БЂright-wingБЂ™ ideologue from the class . . .б There were a group of us students who would try to take any class that he taught. Lott finally had to tell us that it was best for us to try and take classes from other professors more to be exposed to other ways of teaching graduate material.БЂ«Then there was the troubling allegation that Lott actually invented some of the survey data that support his more-guns/less-crime theory. Regardless of whether the data were faked, LottБЂ™s admittedly intriguing hypothesis doesnБЂ™t seem to be true. When other scholars have tried to replicate his results, they found that right-to-carry laws simply donБЂ™t bring down crime. Consider the next crime-drop explanation: the bursting of the crack bubble. Crack cocaine was such a potent, addictive drug that a hugely profitable market had been created practically overnight. True, it was only the leaders of the crack gangs who were getting rich. But that only made the street-level dealers all the more desperate to advance ...»