Citation

Fremling GM, Lott JR. Univ. Penn. Law Rev. 2003; 151(4): 1341-1348.

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(Copyright © 2003, University of Pennsylvania Law School)

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Abstract

Using the General Social survey, Kahan and Braman show that "cultural worldviews" only explain about 1.6 percentage Points of peoples views on gun control. Assuming that their indexes properly measure these "cultural worldviews," the results are very striking and surprising. In addition, 92% of the variation in people's views isn't even explained when all the factors that they account for are included. While they don't test The hypothesis, it is very Conceivable that some of the 92% can be explained by what information People receive. If so, the returns to research could be quite large.