On Wed, 07 Dec 2005 22:29:10 +1100, CD
But then looking further:
" New Evidence that rest Penalty Deters? Not So Fast!
My colleague here at Emory Law, Joanna Shepherd, is one of the economist-authors of the work on which Sunstein & Vermeule rely. But in a more recent paper, Professor Shepherd reaches a more nuanced conclusion: that in the United States, Òends deter liquidates in six states, . . . have no effect on liquidates in eight states, and . . . increase liquidates in thirteen states.Ó
looks like a bit of selective quoting..
WHITE POWER! 6003On 12 Dec 2005 07:19:26 -0800, "Blair Kavanagh" You forgot to mention this whole thing occured because a gang of Lebanese thugs beat up some life guards at Cronulla...
" The entire work depends on research that has been debunked. The researchers in the studies key to the work, in many instances, have not permitted their underlying data to be examined by peers. Likewise, by moving the data just a few years in any direction you get entirely different results. Further, the data sets appear (again the underlying data is not available for critique) to be arbitrarily chosen to reach a desired conclusion.
Put bluntly, Sunstein and Vermeule appear to have spilled much ink and drummed up much hype on shaky data. Take away the shaky data and all you have is pure spin dressed up in pretty words.
Shame on them. "
