Analysis of Newspaper Study

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analysis of newspaper study Baptiste (2013) stated, “In 1926, Albert Einstein told his fellow physicist Werner Heinsenber that it was nonsense to base a theory on observable facts alone. In reality, the very opposite happens, he said. It is theory which decides what we can observe” (p. ix). In the past decade not a month goes by when we do not encounter some kind of violent act in schools. The attacks have been noted from elementary schools to University level. No longer are these cases found in violent crime infested areas of the country and initiated by gang members, but rather in all kinds of suburban, small towns, and delivered by individuals who appeared like a normal, neighborhood student and who did not raise any concerns until the attack occurred. In the newspaper study which I evaluated, the focus was to evaluate eighteen categories amongst states. These categories included gender, race, ethnicity, urbanization, poverty, unemployment, income, education, divorce rate, alcohol use, crime rate and incarceration rate. The goal was to evaluate which states with higher rates of gun ownership have high rates of gun homicides. This was done by researchers in Massachusetts who based their findings on a study that spanned 30 years of gun possession and data dealing with death by firearms. The statistical procedures that are used in this study is the suicide proxy. In this method researchers were able to estimate that in thirty years, “the percentage of households with one or more guns ranged from 25.8 percent in Hawaii to 76.8 percent in Mississippi” (Kauffman, 2013). Another method which was used was "reverse causal association" between gun ownership and homicides. To test that hypothesis, researchers studied gun ownership rates at one and two years earlier than gun homicide rates and found a statistical relationship, supporting the idea that gun

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