Worksheet: Firearm Availability and Unintentional Firearm Deaths
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and Unintentional Firearm Deaths Name: __________________________ Date: _____/_____/_____ 1. How might the possibility that “. . . where there are more guns parents care less about their children’s welfare. . . .” influence the inference one can reach from Dr. Miller’s study? 2. Why did Dr. Miller “. . . control for state level of poverty, urbanization and regionalization”? 3. How does Dr. Miller address the possibility of the ecologic fallacy?
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