{"id":692,"date":"2013-03-22T22:48:44","date_gmt":"2013-03-22T22:48:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.brainsmatter.com\/?p=692"},"modified":"2013-03-22T22:48:44","modified_gmt":"2013-03-22T22:48:44","slug":"162-dr-michael-brown-lies-damned-lies-and-nra-statistics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.brainsmatter.com\/?p=692","title":{"rendered":"162 &#8211; Dr Michael Brown &#8211; Lies, Damned Lies, and NRA Statistics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In today&#8217;s episode, I talk to Dr Michael Brown from Monash University about the mis-use of statistics in the public sphere, and specifically, about the American National Rifle Associations misrepresentations of data.<\/p>\n<p>We talk about:<br \/>\n&#8211; The Australian context<br \/>\n&#8211; Australian gun control laws<br \/>\n&#8211; The subsequent experience after the implementation of these laws<br \/>\n&#8211; What the NRA are doing with Australian statistics<br \/>\n&#8211; Why are they doing this?<br \/>\n&#8211; The tactics used by those wishing to mis-use statistics<\/p>\n<p>Today&#8217;s listener of the episode is Steve Briggs, from Melbourne, Australia.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i182.photobucket.com\/albums\/x287\/brainsmatter\/audio.jpg\"><a href=\"http:\/\/predictabledata.com\/projects\/brainsmatter\/BM162-MichaelBrown.mp3\">Download MP3 of Ep 162<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Dr Brown&#8217;s article in The Conversation: <a href=\"http:\/\/theconversation.com\/faking-waves-how-the-nra-and-pro-gun-americans-abuse-australian-crime-stats-11678\">Faking Waves; how the NRA and pro-gun Americans abuse crime stats<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.paypal.com\/cgi-bin\/webscr?cmd=_xclick&amp;business=brainsmatterinbox%40gmail%2ecom&amp;no_shipping=2&amp;no_note=1&amp;tax=0&amp;currency_code=USD&amp;bn=PP%2dDonationsBF&amp;charset=UTF%2d8\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.paypal.com\/en_US\/i\/btn\/x-click-but04.gif\" alt=\"Donate via Paypal\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In today&#8217;s episode, I talk to Dr Michael Brown from Monash University about the mis-use of statistics in the public sphere, and specifically, about the American National Rifle Associations misrepresentations of data. We talk about: &#8211; The Australian context &#8211; Australian gun control laws &#8211; The subsequent experience after the implementation of these laws &#8211; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,17,20,21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-692","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-interview","category-mathematics","category-podcast","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brainsmatter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/692","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brainsmatter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brainsmatter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brainsmatter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brainsmatter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=692"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.brainsmatter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/692\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":694,"href":"https:\/\/www.brainsmatter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/692\/revisions\/694"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brainsmatter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=692"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brainsmatter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=692"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brainsmatter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=692"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}