Gun Deaths vs. Gun Ownership(mark.reid.name) |
Gun Deaths vs. Gun Ownership(mark.reid.name) |
The author demonstrates how to use R to analyze the data, and he illustrates a "deeply interesting" correlation. (Causation is another question.)
Just because the topic is controversial does not mean that it is not "deeply interesting". From the HN welcome page:
What does "deeply interesting" mean? It means stuff that teaches
you about the world. A story about a robbery, for example,
would probably not be deeply interesting. But if this robbery
was a sign of some bigger, underlying trend, then perhaps
it could be.
Source: http://ycombinator.com/newswelcome.htmlDon't kill a technical article just because the sample data used might whip up feelings in countries where it's a political issue. Science shouldn't back up from things like that.